Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

Details

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. The role focuses on architecting production software for datacenter power-management controllers, cluster-level dynamic provisioning, and power-management control systems for next-generation datacenters. The work spans hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads across the full product lifecycle, from architectural design and pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up, productization, and deployment in large-scale datacenter infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, implement, and debug datacenter power- and performance-management software, with an emphasis on end-to-end power management across racks and data halls.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding datacenter workloads.
• Drive features across requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces and influence power-management capabilities in next-generation processors.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Investigate and resolve complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions.
• Create architecture, interface, and component specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with geographically distributed 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, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
• Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
• Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
• Ability to independently debug complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, designing, or implementing datacenter provisioning, monitoring, and power management at a cloud service provider or network/cloud provider.
• Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management.
• Experience implementing P-state selection, DVFS, clock control, voltage control, power capping, thermal management, throttling, or workload-aware control policies.
• Experience developing real-time feedback controllers, including stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, latency, and noisy telemetry considerations.
• Understanding of voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $224,000–$356,500 USD for Level 5.
• Base salary range: $272,000–$431,250 USD for Level 6.
• Base salary is determined by location, experience, and pay for employees in similar positions.
• Eligible for equity and benefits.
• Applications will be accepted at least until September 26, 2026.
• NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment.