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Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Hybrid (Remote (CA)), Redmond, WA$224k - $431.3kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior System Software Engineer to architect and implement production software for GPU power and performance management, including P-states, DVFS, and power-management controllers for next-generation data-center GPUs. Roles span pre-silicon validation to production support, collaborating with hardware and software teams to optimize performance, power, and reliability in data-center workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, implement, and debug GPU power- and performance-management software, with emphasis on P-state management and DVFS.
  • Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize GPU 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 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 problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Skills

Required:C programmingOperating system fundamentalsHardware-software interfaces

Benefits

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

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