Power Architecture Engineer

Job Title

Power Architecture Engineer

Role Summary

Engineer on the Power Architecture Group responsible for power analysis, power-aware architecture and verification, and post-silicon power correlation for NVIDIA products. The role focuses on building and validating power estimation models/tools, designing system-level power features, and improving energy efficiency across product use cases.

Experience Level

Entry-level. The posting expects approximately 2+ years of relevant industry experience in power analysis, power design, power-aware verification, or related areas.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Architect, develop, verify and correlate power estimation models and tools for product designs.
• Design system-level power features to optimize dynamic and leakage power across use cases.
• Plan and execute power verification (structural, functional, power-aware): write test plans and testcases; build testbench components such as monitors, assertions, and coverage points.
• Drive verification convergence across RTL, gate-level, and silicon.
• Validate power features on silicon, perform measurements and analyses, and contribute to performance-per-watt improvements.
• Develop power management solutions and contribute to energy-efficiency innovations.
• Support post-silicon power correlation and feature bring-up, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

Must-have:

• Strong fundamentals in transistor-level leakage and dynamic characteristics of VLSI circuits.
• Strong fundamentals in digital design and Verilog.
• Familiarity with low-power design techniques: multi-VT, clock gating, power gating, voltage islands, DVFS.
• Background in power estimation techniques, flows, and algorithms.
• Knowledge of power intent formats (UPF/CPF) and power-aware verification methodologies.
• Experience with static power check tools (e.g. VCLP/CLP) and dynamic power verification tools (e.g. VCS-NLP) or equivalents.

Nice-to-have:

• Strong debugging and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Programming skills, preferably Python and object-oriented design.
• Exposure to power analysis tools (PTPX, EPS) or lab setups for power measurements (scope/DAQ) and board-level power analysis.

Education Requirements

Posting specifies B.Tech. or M.Tech. degree. The original posting also indicated ~2+ years of relevant experience.

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.