Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management

Job Title

Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management

Role Summary

Design and implement production system software for GPU power and performance management, focusing on P-state management, DVFS, and power-management controllers for data-center GPUs. The role spans pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up, productization, and large-scale deployment.

Work at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads to improve performance, energy efficiency, and reliability of next-generation GPUs. Applications for this posting are accepted through 2026-09-25.

Experience Level

Senior-level. The posting requests at least 12+ years of industry experience in system software, firmware, device drivers, or related hardware-focused production software.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include architecting, implementing, validating, and supporting GPU power- and performance-management software across the full product lifecycle.

• 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 to optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under data-center workloads.
• Drive features through 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 for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
• Analyze 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 across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness.
• Produce architecture, interface, and composition specifications for new power-management features and coordinate with distributed teams.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience required for successful performance in this role.

• At least 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 OS fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
• Experience interpreting hardware specifications and implementing 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 spanning multiple software and hardware layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Nice-to-have:

• Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management.
• Experience implementing P-state selection, DVFS, clock/voltage control, power-capping, thermal management, throttling, or workload-aware control policies.
• Experience developing real-time feedback controllers and reasoning about stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, latency, and noisy telemetry.
• Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets.

Education Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical 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.