Senior Power Architect, Power and Performance Analysis Tools

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a highly motivated power architect to own and advance a power estimation and analysis platform shaping architecture and product decisions. This role sits at the intersection of software development, system architecture, performance modeling, and silicon analysis.

You will build models, analyze trade-offs, integrate telemetry and counters, and drive adoption across architecture, performance, power, and firmware teams.

Qualifications

• Masters in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, CS, or related STEM field—or equivalent experience. 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong software development skills in Python or C++, with production-quality tools experience.
• Understanding of computer/SoC architecture including processors, memory, interconnects and power-management concepts.
• Experience with power and performance estimation, modeling, or system-level analysis.
• Ability to evaluate architecture trade-offs using metrics like performance per watt and bandwidth.
• Experience modeling workloads and analyzing how workload characteristics affect power and performance.
• Familiarity with silicon telemetry, performance-monitoring counters, power sensors, traces, logs or lab data.
• Strong data-analysis and debugging skills; ability to correlate results from multiple sources.
• Experience designing maintainable software with automated testing, documentation, and reproducible workflows.
• Ability to own an ambiguous technical area from requirements to adoption; strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, development, validation, and long-term roadmap of power estimation and analysis tools.
• Develop scalable software for estimating and analyzing power and performance across workloads and configurations.
• Build models translating architectural parameters, workload behavior, and telemetry into actionable insights.
• Enable rapid analysis of trade-offs including performance, power, energy, and thermals.
• Develop workload models and representative scenarios for early architecture exploration.
• Integrate telemetry, performance counters, power measurements, and simulation data into a unified framework.
• Correlate pre-silicon estimates with post-silicon measurements and improve prediction accuracy.
• Create automation, visualization, and reporting to make analysis accessible to architects and teams.
• Partner with architecture, performance, power, thermal, firmware, validation, and silicon teams to define requirements.
• Establish sound software-engineering practices and release management.
• Serve as the technical owner and SME for the tool.

Skills

Python

C++

Engineering tools

Education

Masters degree

Tools

Telemetry data

Performance counters

Power sensors

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated power architect to own and advance a critical power estimation and analysis platform used to guide architecture and product decisions. This role sits at the intersection of software development, system architecture, performance modeling, and silicon analysis.

You will develop the tools and methodologies that help architects understand power-performance behavior, evaluate performance-per-watt trade-offs, model representative workloads, and correlate early estimates with silicon telemetry. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with a deep curiosity about how modern SoCs consume power and deliver performance.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the architecture, development, validation, and long-term roadmap of our power estimation and analysis tools.
• Develop scalable, maintainable software for estimating and analyzing power and performance across workloads, use cases, and product configurations.
• Build models that translate architectural parameters, workload behavior, utilization, and telemetry into actionable power-performance insights.
• Enable rapid analysis of architectural trade-offs, including performance, power, energy efficiency, thermals, and performance per watt.
• Develop workload models and representative usage scenarios for early architecture exploration and product analysis.
• Integrate silicon telemetry, performance counters, power measurements, and simulation data into a unified analysis framework.
• Correlate pre-silicon estimates with post-silicon measurements, identify modeling gaps, and continuously improve prediction accuracy.
• Create automation, visualization, and reporting capabilities that make complex analysis accessible to architects and engineering teams.
• Partner with architecture, performance, power, thermal, firmware, validation, and silicon teams to define requirements and drive technical decisions.
• Establish sound software-engineering practices, including modular design, code reviews, testing, documentation, version control, and release management.
• Serve as the technical owner and subject-matter expert for the tool, supporting users while growing a community of contributors.

What We Need To See

• A Masters in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related STEM field—or equivalent experience. 6 years of relevant work experience
• Strong software development skills in Python, C++, or similar languages, with experience building production-quality engineering tools.
• Understanding of computer or SoC architecture, including processors, memory systems, interconnects, accelerators, and power-management concepts.
• Experience with power and performance estimation, performance modeling, architectural exploration, or system-level analysis.
• Ability to evaluate architecture trade-offs using metrics such as performance per watt, energy per task, utilization, latency, throughput, and bandwidth.
• Experience modeling workloads or analyzing how workload characteristics affect system power and performance.
• Familiarity with silicon telemetry, performance-monitoring counters, power sensors, traces, logs, or lab measurement data.
• Strong data-analysis and debugging skills, including the ability to correlate results from multiple sources and explain unexpected behavior.
• Experience designing maintainable software with clear interfaces, automated testing, documentation, and reproducible workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of an ambiguous technical area and drive it from requirements through implementation and adoption. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear recommendations.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Experience developing power or performance models for complex SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, or automotive platforms.
• Knowledge of dynamic power management, DVFS, clock and power gating, thermal management, idle states, and workload-driven resource management.
• Familiarity with statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, or sensitivity analysis applied to power-performance prediction.
• A track record of turning prototype scripts into reliable, widely adopted engineering platforms.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 14, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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