Senior Power and Performance Engineer
NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
Santa Clara, CA$168k - $310.5kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Silicon Power and Thermal Controllers Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and productizing power-performance and thermal-control mechanisms inside GPUs, CPUs, and SoCs. Collaborates across silicon, firmware, platform, and software to optimize power and thermal envelopes while delivering production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and tune silicon power and thermal controllers in close partnership with firmware, hardware, software, and design/power-architecture teams — from spec through productization.
- Drive debug and resolution of power-limiting constraints, and deliver efficient, time-to-market product-specific customizations that unlock performance without compromising the thermal envelope.
- Deliver system-level power optimizations spanning silicon, platform, software, and manufacturing — for products ranging from large-scale datacenter accelerators to low-power client devices.
- Partner with the SCG Tools team to left-shift modeling, analysis, and test infrastructure — refine methodologies, sharpen procedures, and bring new closed-loop techniques into production.
- Validate silicon power and thermal features across multi-functional teams from bring-up through production silicon, and be responsible for the WARs and productized fixes through to confirmation.
- Translate complex power, thermal, and performance signals into decision-ready options that give leadership the clarity to act on POR, binning, and program-impacting risks.
- Work alongside system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, power-architecture engineers, Product Definition Engineers, and ATE engineers in a high-energy environment to bring industry-defining products to market.
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 6+ years implementing power and thermal controllers in firmware for GPU, CPU, or SoC products.
- Hands-on experience with system-level silicon bring-up and validation, DVFS, power characterization and modeling, performance analysis, and perf-per-watt optimization.
- Background in implementing system-level features, thermal policies, and data-analysis and statistics workflows.
- Solid understanding of digital design, circuit analysis, CPU/GPU/SoC architecture, PTPX, advanced process technologies, and transistor/device physics.
- Demonstrated experience operating across globally distributed and offshore engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate complex post-silicon signals into crisp, decision-ready options for executive leadership.
Skills
Required:DVFS and power characterizationData analysis and statistics workflowsCross-functional communication
Benefits
- Equity eligible
- Competitive salaries
- Generous benefits package (see company benefits)
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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