Senior Power and Performance Engineer

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 264,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Eligible for equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Gruppe in Santa Clara is looking for a System Architect to lead the development of system-level performance and power management features. This role involves collaborating with multiple teams to ensure product efficiency and managing complex technical issues.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years of experience in silicon power architecture, a strong educational background in electrical engineering, and proficiency in programming. The position offers competitive salary options and equity benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in silicon power architecture, system-level design, validation, and optimization.
• Strong EE fundamentals including digital design, low power design, DVFS, and timing.
• Hands-on lab experience and silicon bringup exposure are a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and integrate performance and power management features.
• Build feature roadmaps for low-power and performance-per-watt needs.
• Partner with teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues.

Skills

Silicon power architecture

System-level design

Power/performance optimization

Problem-solving

Programming proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Perl

Education

BS or MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience)

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Logic analyzers

Job description

NVIDIA's Silicon Co-design Group (SCG) sits at a rare intersection: we own the full product development lifecycle, from early architecture definition through silicon bringup to product release. Our ArchDev team is the hub for silicon and system-level feature development, driving tradeoff analysis, system integration, and POR alignment across the entire organization. If you want to see your work go from whiteboard to world-class silicon, this is where that happens.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products.
• Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs.
• Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues.
• Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve.
• Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bringup, validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations.

What We Need to See

• BS or MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years in silicon power architecture, system-level design, validation, and power/performance optimization.
• Strong EE fundamentals: digital design, low power design, DVFS, control systems, power management, timing, and architecture.
• Solid understanding of firmware/driver structures and HW/SW interaction.
• Familiarity with clocking, boot/reset flows, and system architecture is a plus.
• Hands‑on lab experience (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers) and silicon bringup exposure are a bonus.
• Programming proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Perl in Windows/Linux environments.
• Strong problem‑solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Ways to Stand Out in a Crowd

• Demonstrated cross‑functional leadership—experience driving alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, and software teams on complex, ambiguous problems.
• System‑level intuition—the ability to reason about power and performance holistically, not just at the block level, and to translate architectural tradeoffs into clear engineering decisions.
• AI‑assisted engineering fluency—comfort using AI tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to accelerate analysis, workflows, generate and review scripts, synthesize technical documentation, and explore solution spaces faster. Candidates who treat AI as a force multiplier for their engineering judgment—rather than a replacement for it—will be well‑positioned for how NVIDIA's teams are evolving.

Benefits

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is $168,000 USD - $264,500 USD for Level 4, and $196,000 USD - $310,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.