Senior Power Architecture Engineer — Perf/Watt Leader

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 489,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara seeks a Distinguished Engineer to define long-term power architecture strategy across datacenter GPUs, GeForce, automotive, robotics, and edge AI. You will own perf/watt, drive cross-portfolio decisions, and mentor the next generation of technical leaders.

The role requires deep RTL and backend expertise, 18+ years of impactful work, and a proven track record shaping power solutions across multiple silicon generations.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of relevant industry and/or academic experience.
• Ownership of power architecture across several silicon generations—server-class, client/mobile-class, or thermally-constrained SoC platforms.
• Deep, applied expertise in low-power and energy-efficient design techniques.
• Authoritative understanding of modern GPU, CPU, and accelerator architectures; high-speed interconnects; memory subsystems; and system layers.
• Proven history of power and performance modeling methods and validation before/after silicon.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-generation, cross-portfolio power strategy.
• Own perf/watt across server-, client-, and edge-class platforms.
• Drive performance-versus-power analysis influencing silicon trade-offs and roadmaps.
• Lead silicon and vendor/IP co-architecture.
• Architect thermal and system-level power management end-to-end.
• Drive ML- and workload-aware modeling and post-silicon optimization.
• Influence across the company and industry.
• Develop the next generation of technical leaders.
• Generate sustained IP and intellectual contribution.

Skills

Power architecture leadership

Modeling perf/watt

GPU/CPU/accelerator architectures

RTL/backend implementation

Mentoring engineers

Education

MSEE, MSCE, or PhD or equivalent

Tools

NVLink

PCIe

HBM

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara seeks a Distinguished Engineer to define long-term power architecture strategy across datacenter GPUs, GeForce, automotive, robotics, and edge AI. You will own perf/watt, drive cross-portfolio decisions, and mentor the next generation of technical leaders.

The role requires deep RTL and backend expertise, 18+ years of impactful work, and a proven track record shaping power solutions across multiple silicon generations.