Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power and Performance Management

Details

NVIDIA is redefining accelerated computing and powering the next era of artificial intelligence. Its data-center platforms bring together GPUs, CPUs, networking, systems, and software to solve complex computing problems. The GPU Performance and Power Management Software team is seeking a System Software Engineer to design, develop, and debug production software for performance states (P-states) and power management controllers. The role supports dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and power-management technologies for next-generation data-center GPUs.

The position works at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads. Contributions span the full product lifecycle, including design, pre-silicon development, validation, silicon bring-up, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, implement, and debug GPU power and performance management software, with an emphasis on P-state management and DVFS.
• Develop control policies, mechanisms, and real-time software that optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy-efficiency KPIs under demanding data-center workloads.
• Own focus areas and 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 shape power-management capabilities for next-generation processors.
• Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Lead investigations and resolve 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.
• Create architecture, interface, and feature specifications for new power and performance management capabilities.
• Partner with distributed teams across architecture, ASIC, firmware, drivers, validation, platform, and data-center systems.
• Influence next-generation system software by building scalable internal architecture frameworks.

Requirements

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of industry experience developing system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, 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, cross-layer problems across software and hardware.
• Ability to own technically challenging features or subsystems and drive them to production with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 telemetry noise.
• Experience building validation, observability, and automation infrastructure for low-level software features.
• Understanding of voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.

Benefits

NVIDIA offers competitive salaries, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package. Applications will be accepted at least until September 26, 2026. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.