Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

NVIDIA•Austin, WA

5d•$224,000 - $431,250

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. The role involves architecting production software for data-center power-management controllers and developing cluster-level dynamic provisioning and power-management control technologies for next-generation data centers. The engineer will work across hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads. Responsibilities span the product lifecycle, from architectural design and pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up, productization, and deployment in large data-center infrastructures. The position focuses on enabling next-generation NVIDIA GPUs to deliver performance, energy efficiency, and reliability.

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 crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
Strong C programming skills, including 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.
Proven ability to independently debug complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a track record of working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Nice To Haves

Background architecting, designing, or implementing data-center provisioning, monitoring, and power management at a CSP or NCP.
Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management.
Background crafting or 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.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, implement, and debug data-center power- and performance-management software, especially end-to-end power management at racks and data halls.
Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms to dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads.
Drive features through 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 next-generation processor power-management capabilities.
Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
Lead investigation and resolution of 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.
Build architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features.
Partner with geographically distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems teams.