Senior GPU Power & Performance Software Engineer

NVIDIA; Austin (TX); 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 Austin, TX. You will architect and implement production software for P-states and DVFS, working at the intersection of hardware, firmware, drivers, and OS to optimize performance, power, and reliability for data-center GPUs.

You will drive features across the full product lifecycle, collaborate with hardware and software partners, analyze complex interactions among workloads,

Qualifications

• BS or MS 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 other hardware-related production software.
• Strong C programming skills in debugging and maintaining low-level software.
• Deep understanding of OS fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded/real-time software, concurrency, interrupts, and hardware programming.
• Experience interpreting hardware specs 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 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 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 interfaces and influence power-management capabilities of next-generation processors.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Lead investigation and resolution of 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 architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center teams.

Skills

C programming

OS fundamentals

Device drivers

Concurrency

Debugging across HW/SW

Communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE or related

Equivalent experience

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join the GPU Performance and Power Management Software team in Austin, TX. You will architect and implement production software for P-states and DVFS, working at the intersection of hardware, firmware, drivers, and OS to optimize performance, power, and reliability for data-center GPUs.

You will drive features across the full product lifecycle, collaborate with hardware and software partners, analyze complex interactions among workloads,