Senior System Power & Performance Architect - Datacenter

NVIDIA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 232,000 - 368,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal System Power Management and Performance Architect to navigate ambiguous problems from concept to silicon correlation and release trade-offs. You will define multi-generation roadmaps, own HSIO power management, DVFS, P-states, and boot-flow architectures, and lead platform-level power strategies across NVIDIA’s data center and HPC ecosystems.

The role demands deep expertise in low-power design, system boot sequences, and the ability to influence across architecture,

Qualifications

• BS or MS in EE/CE, or equivalent experience proven through the work itself
• 15+ years of system architecture, development, and validation experience with a strong focus on power and performance-per-watt optimization in datacenter or high-performance platforms.
• A verifiable history of guiding architecture decisions that shipped across multiple silicon programs. Be ready to walk through a case where you challenged a roadmap direction, explain your reasoning from first principles, and describe what changed.
• Extensive knowledge of HSIO power management, DVFS, P-states, system boot flows, and low-power entry/exit architecture, including how they interact with IP, firmware, and platform layers.
• Strong fundamentals in low-power design, power management techniques, and rack-level performance architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-generation roadmap for system-level power and performance features, grounded in prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs across segments.
• Own the architecture and integration strategy for HSIO power management, DVFS, P-states, and low-power features. Your decisions improve product performance, power, and reliability across product lines - not just the current program.
• Lead system-level boot and IST architecture defining how power and clock domains initialize, sequence, and recover across complex multi-IP systems where the interaction space is large and the failure modes matter.
• Drive power management strategy at datacenter scale, including rack-level power telemetry and platform state coordination in high-performance environments.
• Identify and redesign system-level processes that break under new product requirements- boot/reset flows, low-power entry/exit sequences, and control-system policies across IPs. When a prior design no longer holds, you diagnose why and architect what comes next.
• Serve as the multi-functional technical authority across architecture, ASIC, board/platform, and firmware teams. You improve the power-performance trade-offs by influencing decisions made by teams you do not control.

Skills

HSIO power management

DVFS

P-states

System boot flows

Low-power design

Rack-level performance

Power management techniques

Education

BS or MS in EE/CE

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal System Power Management and Performance Architect to navigate ambiguous problems from concept to silicon correlation and release trade-offs. You will define multi-generation roadmaps, own HSIO power management, DVFS, P-states, and boot-flow architectures, and lead platform-level power strategies across NVIDIA’s data center and HPC ecosystems.

The role demands deep expertise in low-power design, system boot sequences, and the ability to influence across architecture,