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Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Remote$224k - $356.5kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

SeniorSystem Software Engineer to architect and develop datacenter power management software and related control systems for NVIDIA’s Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team, spanning pre-silicon validation to production deployment in data-center infrastructures.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software, with emphasis on end-to-end power management at racks and data halls
  • Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads
  • Drive features across the full product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support
  • Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces and influence power-management capabilities of next-generation processors
  • Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies
  • Lead investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software
  • Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions
  • Build clear architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features
  • Partner with geographically distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems teams

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience
  • At least 12+ years of industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software
  • Strong programming skills in C, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software
  • Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming
  • Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms
  • Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions
  • Proven ability to independently debug complex problems across multiple software and hardware layers
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, collaboration across organizational and geographic boundaries

Skills

Required:C programmingOperating systems fundamentalsDevice driver developmentHardware-software interface designReal-time/embedded software

Benefits

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

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