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Principal Power and Performance Architect

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$272k - $431.3kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior/Principal power and performance architect to lead power management features from architecture to product delivery across silicon, platform, software, and systems, collaborating with multiple teams to bring industry-defining products to market.

Responsibilities

  • Architect next generation power management features and solutions, through system architecture, design, and productization; working with multi-functional teams across the company.
  • Evaluate industry direction and use cases; identify opportunities and challenges in the area of power management and optimization to drive the future roadmap to build competitive products.
  • Drive initiatives for system-level power optimizations spanning across silicon, platform, software, manufacturing, and product systems; for products ranging from large-scale datacenters to low-power client devices.
  • Lead the team for power feature requirements and schedule from architecture to silicon phase of projects, incorporating silicon feedback to improve the next generation.
  • Develop methodologies for power modeling and measurement, characterization of power features, correlate silicon behavior with simulations, and provide design feedback.
  • Work alongside system architects, designers, marketing teams, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, HW/SW applications engineering, process/reliability authorities, ATE engineers, sales, and silicon operations, in a fast-paced, high-energy, collaborative work environment to bring industry-defining products to market.

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in EE, CE, CS, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience of 15+ years in the area of silicon and product power and power management.
  • Expertise and deep understanding in silicon power, transistor/device physics, power modeling and measurement, active power management.
  • Background with system level features, product binning methods, optimization techniques, methods and tools for data analysis and statistics.
  • Experience working on product level power and performance analysis and optimization; datacenter market segment preferred.
  • Familiarity with silicon bringup and validation, frequency and power characterization; hands-on post silicon experience a plus.
  • Excellent problem solving, partnership, and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience working with offshore teams is required.
  • Exposure to CPU/GPU/SoC architecture and HW-SW co-design is a plus.

Skills

Required:Power managementSystem-level optimizationPower modeling and measurement

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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