Senior GPU Power & Performance Software Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to architect and implement production software for P-states and DVFS on data-center GPUs. You will influence hardware-software interfaces and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads to optimize performance, power, and reliability.

You will contribute across the full lifecycle from design and pre-silicon validation to production deployment, collaborating with distributed teams to ensure scalable, robust

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 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 experience 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 optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
• Lead features across the full product lifecycle from requirements to production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and policies.
• Investigate and resolve complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, latency, and robustness.
• 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

Embedded firmware

Device drivers

OS fundamentals

Hardware interfaces

Concurrency & interrupts

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to architect and implement production software for P-states and DVFS on data-center GPUs. You will influence hardware-software interfaces and work across hardware, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads to optimize performance, power, and reliability.

You will contribute across the full lifecycle from design and pre-silicon validation to production deployment, collaborating with distributed teams to ensure scalable, robust