Senior GPU Power and Performance Software Engineer

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the GPU Performance and Power Management Software team in Santa Clara. You will architect and build production software for P-states and DVFS, spanning hardware interfaces, real-time control, and system-level optimization.

Responsibilities include design, validation, silicon bring-up, and production support across a data-center scale, collaborating with hardware, firmware, and platform teams to achieve top-tier performance and energy

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• At least 12+ years of extensive industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware‑related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, including developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low‑level software.
• Deep understanding of operating‑system fundamentals, device‑driver architecture, embedded or real‑time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
• Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware‑software interactions.
• Proven ability to independently debug complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, implement, and debug GPU power- and performance-management software, with emphasis on P-state management and DVFS.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads.
• Drive features across the full product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces and influence power-management capabilities of next‑generation processors.
• Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system‑level policies.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions.
• Build clear architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with geographically distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data‑center systems teams.

Skills

C programming

OS fundamentals

Device drivers

Concurrency

Real-time software

Debugging complex problems

Communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE/EE

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the GPU Performance and Power Management Software team in Santa Clara. You will architect and build production software for P-states and DVFS, spanning hardware interfaces, real-time control, and system-level optimization.

Responsibilities include design, validation, silicon bring-up, and production support across a data-center scale, collaborating with hardware, firmware, and platform teams to achieve top-tier performance and energy