Senior Applied Power Architect - GPU
NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Austin, TX$168k - $264.5k + equityFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior Applied Power Architect specializing in low-power GPU architectures, focusing on power management, PDN design, and multi-die/packaging considerations to optimize performance and power for NVIDIA's AI, Automotive, GeForce, and Mobile products.
Responsibilities
- Invent methodologies, features and techniques to address electrical/speed/power challenges for next-generation AI architectures (e.g., Rubin and Feynman).
- Drive power management initiatives to optimize power efficiency and performance within electrical/thermal and power constraints.
- Understand process characteristics and analyze V-F tradeoffs considering Vt choices on power and performance.
- Investigate multi-die technologies and develop solutions addressing packaging, interconnect, physical design, electrical and thermal challenges.
- Analyze peak current, Di/Dt, IR and EM requirements and collaborate with ASIC designers, Power Integrity, Packaging experts and Product engineers to formulate solutions.
Qualifications
- MSEE/MSCE, preferably PhD, or equivalent experience with specialization in low-power-processor architectures.
- 6+ years of relevant industry experience with solid understanding of energy efficient system design fundamentals, performance/power modeling and related tradeoffs.
- Background in PDN design and understanding of electrical issues such as Di/Dt, undershoot/overshoot, IR, EM, peak current, and mitigation techniques is helpful.
Skills
Required:Low-power processor architecturesPDN design
Nice to have:Process-VDM/V-F analysis
Benefits
- Equity and benefits per company policy (benefits link provided in description).
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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