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Base Salary
$224k - $431k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, debug, and maintain datacenter power- and performance-management software.
- Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms for optimizing performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
- Drive features through requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
- Define hardware-software interfaces with GPU architects and hardware designers.
- Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system policies.
- Investigate and resolve power, performance, stability, and reliability issues across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
- Develop validation strategies and automation for correctness, latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness.
- Create architecture, interface, and component specifications for power-management features.
- Collaborate with architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and datacenter systems teams.
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 12+ years of industry experience developing system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
- Strong C programming skills and experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
- Deep knowledge of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
- Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
- Ability to independently debug complex issues across multiple software and hardware layers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating across organizations and geographic boundaries.
- Preferred experience with datacenter power provisioning and management, GPU or CPU power and performance management, P-state selection, DVFS, clock and voltage control, power capping, thermal management, throttling, workload-aware policies, and real-time feedback controllers.
- Preferred understanding of voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.
Benefits
- Eligible for equity and benefits.
- Base salary varies by location, experience, and comparable employee pay.
- Applications will be accepted at least until September 26, 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.