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System Software Engineer - GPU Power and Performance Management

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Santa Clara, CA$124k - $195.5kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on designing, developing, and debugging production software for GPU power- and performance-management (P-states, DVFS) and related power-management technologies for data-center GPUs; involves work across hardware-software interfaces, firmware, drivers, OS, and AI workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, implement, and debug GPU power- and performance-management software, with emphasis on P-state management and DVFS.
  • Develop control policies and software mechanisms that optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads.
  • Support features through 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 and implement hardware-software interfaces for next-generation processors.
  • Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
  • Investigate, triage, and resolve power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
  • Help execute validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions.
  • Write clear technical documentation, interface definitions, for features.
  • Partner with distributed teams across architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience, or strong coursework, internship, co-op, or project experience in system software.
  • Strong programming skills in C, with the ability to develop, debug, and maintain low-level kernel software.
  • Good understanding of operating-system fundamentals, computer architecture, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming
  • Ability to independently debug and analyze across multiple layers of software and hardware.
  • Ability to read and understand hardware specifications and software interface definitions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn from and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:C programmingOperating system fundamentalsDevice-driver architecture

Benefits

  • equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • base salary and bonus/benefits eligibility as described
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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