Principal Power and Thermal Innovation Architect

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

7d•$232,000 - $368,000

About The Position

NVIDIA is transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing. We are harnessing the boundless possibilities of AI to build the next era of computing, where our GPU acts as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars. This role is within the Silicon Co-Design Group (SCG), responsible for power and thermal architecture decisions that impact performance and thermal headroom. The Principal Architect will scout the research and industry landscape, identify emerging system-level co-design ideas in power and thermal, and drive them across teams to create product differentiation across NVIDIA's roadmap. This role shapes system, platform, and datacenter features and behaviors, partnering with teams across NVIDIA, including architecture, design, software, operations, platforms, and productization.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
15+ years in system-level power, thermal, or related architecture.
Deep expertise in at least one of: system power management, system thermal architecture, platform energy architecture, workload-aware power and thermal controls, or memory co-design.
External technical recognition, premier publications, patents, or industry standards contributions.
Active contributions to standards bodies, consortia, or external technical communities.
Track record of taking research-grade ideas through system co-design and into measurable product impact.
Demonstrated multi-functional influence in aligning teams across the company without direct reporting authority.
Excellent problem-solving, partnership, and social skills.

Nice To Haves

PhD or equivalent experience with sustained research contributions after entering industry.
Machine learning or data-driven techniques applied to system power, thermal modeling, or design-space exploration.
Background in system reliability and variability, managing aging based on usage patterns, RAS, lifecycle management, and the intersection with power and thermal.
Hands-on familiarity with emerging memory technologies, including advanced HBM and stacked memory.
Active contributions to standards bodies, consortia, or external technical communities.

Responsibilities

Architect next-generation system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions.
Scan internal research, academia, standards bodies, and silicon, memory, packaging, and platform partners for emerging technologies.
Build the product differentiation case for each candidate idea, considering performance, power, reliability, schedule, and cost.
Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to product.
Drive alignment across architecture, VLSI, software, platform, packaging, and operations teams to implement selected technologies in production.
Shape innovation across workload-aware power and thermal controls, closed-loop platform telemetry, datacenter-class power compliance, platform-scale energy buffering, advanced cooling intercepts, and emerging memory co-design.
Maintain a living intercept pipeline, tracking candidates, productization status, decision gates, and product axes.
Brief SCG and broader NVIDIA leadership on future technology directions.
Collaborate with system architects, platform and software engineers, manufacturing partners, and external researchers to bring next-generation products to market.