Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

Details

NVIDIA is redefining accelerated computing and powering the next era of artificial intelligence. The Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to architect production software for datacenter power management controllers. The role also covers cluster-level dynamic provisioning and power-management control-system technologies for next-generation datacenters.

The work spans hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads across the entire 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 emphasis on end-to-end power management at 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 the full product lifecycle, including 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 of next-generation processors.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions.
• Build architecture, interface, and component specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with 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, with experience working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting, designing, or implementing datacenter provisioning, monitoring, and power management at a CSP or NCP.
• 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 reasoning about stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, latency, and noisy telemetry.
• Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range is USD 224,000–356,500 for Level 5 and USD 272,000–431,250 for Level 6. Compensation is determined based on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications will be accepted at least until October 27, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes and is an equal opportunity employer.