Senior Datacenter Power & Performance Systems Engineer

NVIDIA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads.

You’ll influence power-management capabilities for next‑generation NVIDIA GPUs, lead end-to-end product lifecycle, and collaborate with distributed teams to deliver robust, energy-efficient data-center solutions.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or related production software.
• Strong C programming skills and experience with low-level software.
• Deep understanding of OS fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupts, and hardware programming.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software for racks and data halls.
• Develop real-time controllers and policies to optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
• Drive features across the product lifecycle—from requirements to pre-silicon validation, bring-up, and production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers on interfaces and power-management capabilities.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and policies.
• Lead investigations of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness and robustness across conditions.
• Create architecture, interface, and composition specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with distributed teams across architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, and data-center systems.

Skills

C programming

Low-level software

Device drivers

Embedded firmware

OS fundamentals

Concurrency

Hardware-software interaction

Debugging complex systems

Communication skills

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. You will architect production software for datacenter power management controllers and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads.

You’ll influence power-management capabilities for next‑generation NVIDIA GPUs, lead end-to-end product lifecycle, and collaborate with distributed teams to deliver robust, energy-efficient data-center solutions.