Distinguished Engineer, Power Architecture
NVIDIA· Distinguished Engineer
Santa Clara, CA$320k - $488.8kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Join NVIDIA's Applied Power Architecture team to define perf/watt standards across silicon and systems. Lead long-term power strategy, cross-portfolio ownership of perf/watt, and end-to-end power management across datacenter GPUs, client products, automotive, robotics, and edge-AI.
Responsibilities
- Set multi-generation, cross-portfolio power strategy.
- Own perf/watt across server-, client-, and edge-class platforms.
- Drive performance-versus-power analysis that influences major silicon trade-offs and product roadmap decisions.
- Lead silicon and vendor/IP co-architecture.
- Define new technology frontiers.
- Architect thermal and system-level power management end-to-end.
- Drive ML- and workload-aware modeling and post-silicon optimization.
- Influence across the company and the industry.
- Develop the next generation of technical leaders.
- Generate sustained IP and intellectual contribution.
Qualifications
- MSEE, MSCE, or PhD or equivalent experience demonstrating significant impact in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 18+ years of relevant industry and/or academic experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of power architecture across several successful silicon generations—server-class, client/mobile-class, or thermally-constrained SoC platforms.
- Deep, applied expertise in the full stack of low-power and energy-efficient design techniques.
- Authoritative understanding of modern GPU, CPU, and accelerator architectures; high-speed interconnects (NVLink, PCIe, Ethernet, optical, automotive networks); memory subsystems (HBM, LPDDR, on-die SRAM); and the system, OS, runtime, firmware, and workload layers that determine real-world perf/watt.
- Proven history of developing and implementing power and performance modeling methods, important metrics, and tools widely used across the engineering organization.
- Demonstrated experience defining requirements with — and architecting power solutions across — internal silicon teams and external silicon, IP, foundry, or packaging partners.
Skills
Required:Power architectureLow-power design techniquesGPU/CPU/accelerator architecturesPower and performance modelingSystem and software stack knowledge
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits (see NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Jun 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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