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Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power and Performance Management

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer focused on GPU power and performance management, including P-states and DVFS for next-generation data-center GPUs. Role spans design, development, validation, silicon bring-up, and production support across hardware-software interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, implement, and debug GPU power and performance management software, with emphasis on P-state management and DVFS.
  • Develop control policies, mechanisms, and real-time software that optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency KPIs under demanding data-center workloads.
  • Own focus area and drive features across the full product lifecycle, including 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 shape the 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 for 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 feature specifications for new power and performance management capabilities.
  • Partner effectively with distributed teams across architecture, ASIC, firmware, drivers, validation, platform, and data-center systems.
  • Influence next generation system software by building internal scalable architecture frameworks.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of extensive 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, cross-layer problems across software and hardware.
  • Demonstrated ability to own technically challenging features or subsystems and drive them to production in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Skills

Required:C programmingOperating system fundamentalsHardware-software interfacing

Benefits

  • Equity eligibility
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Details at www.nvidiabenefits.com
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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