2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$124k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, debug, and maintain GPU power- and performance-management software focused on P-states and DVFS.
- Develop policies and mechanisms that optimize GPU performance, power, thermal behavior, and energy efficiency for data-center workloads.
- Support software features across requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
- Define and implement hardware-software interfaces with GPU architects and hardware designers.
- Analyze workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
- Investigate and resolve power, performance, stability, and reliability issues across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
- Execute validation and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness.
- Document technical features and interface definitions while collaborating with distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems teams.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience, or strong coursework, internship, co-op, or project experience in system software.
- Strong C programming skills and the ability to develop, debug, and maintain low-level kernel software.
- Understanding of operating-system fundamentals, computer architecture, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
- Ability to debug and analyze across multiple software and hardware layers and understand hardware specifications and software interface definitions.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management; P-states; DVFS; clock and voltage control; thermal management; validation; scripting or automation; telemetry analysis; and hardware-software interactions.
- Experience leveraging AI tools for software engineering, coding, validation, or automation workflows is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $124,000-$195,500 for Level 2 and $152,000-$241,500 for Level 3, with additional equity and benefits.
- NVIDIA offers a comprehensive benefits package for employees and their families.
- Applications will be accepted at least until October 3, 2026.
Tech Stack
C
Categories
About Nvidia
Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.