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Principal Power and Thermal Architect

NVIDIA· Engineer, ASIC
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Santa Clara, CA$232k - $368kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Architect to scout research and industry landscape for power and thermal co-design ideas, drive them across teams into product differentiation, and shape system, platform, and datacenter features across NVIDIA’s roadmap. The role involves end-to-end co-design from concept to production, collaboration across multiple groups, and influencing roadmap and standards.

Responsibilities

  • Architect next-generation system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions. Scan internal research, academia, standards bodies, and silicon, memory, packaging, and platform partners for what is emerging.
  • Build the product differentiation case for each candidate idea, considering performance, power, reliability, schedule, cost, and determine what is worth pursuing.
  • Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to product. Drive alignment across architecture, VLSI, software, platform, packaging, and operations teams to land selected technologies in production.
  • Shape innovation across workload-aware power and thermal controls, closed-loop platform telemetry, datacenter-class power compliance, platform-scale energy buffering, advanced cooling intercepts, and emerging memory co-design.
  • Maintain a living intercept pipeline. Track candidates, productization status, decision gates, and product axes. Brief SCG and NVIDIA leadership on upcoming initiatives.
  • Collaborate with system architects, platform and software engineers, manufacturing partners, and external researchers to bring next-generation products to market.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years in system-level power, thermal, or related architecture, with deep expertise in at least one of: system power management, system thermal architecture, platform energy architecture, workload-aware power and thermal controls, or memory co-design.
  • External technical recognition, premier publications, patents, or industry standards contributions, and active contributions to standards bodies, consortia, or external technical communities.
  • Track record of taking research-grade ideas through system co-design and into measurable product impact.
  • Demonstrated multi-functional influence in aligning teams across the company without direct reporting authority.
  • Excellent problem-solving, partnership, and social skills.

Skills

Required:Power and thermal architectureCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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