Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

Job Title

Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management

Role Summary

Join NVIDIA's Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team to architect and deliver production software for datacenter power management controllers and cluster-level power provisioning. The role sits at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and large-scale data-center systems.

Work covers the full product lifecycle from architectural design and pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up, productization, and deployment in production data centers.

Experience Level

Senior - typically requires at least 12+ years of industry experience in system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-facing production software.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Architect and implement end-to-end datacenter power and performance-management software for racks and data halls.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms to dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under datacenter workloads.
• Drive features across 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.
• Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Investigate and resolve complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness.
• Produce clear architecture, interface, and composition specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with geographically distributed teams across architecture, ASIC, firmware, drivers, validation, platform, and data-center systems.

Requirements

Must-have qualifications:

• 12+ years of industry experience developing system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, with 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 and experience working across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience architecting datacenter provisioning, monitoring, and power management at a CSP/NCP.
• Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management (P-state selection, DVFS, clock/voltage control, power capping, thermal management).
• Experience developing real-time feedback controllers and reasoning about stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, and noisy telemetry.
• Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as transient power, power delivery, voltage-frequency relationships, thermal limits, and system-level power budgets.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical 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.