SoC Power Architect

Job Title

SoC Power Architect

Role Summary

Work on power architecture and optimization for NVIDIA DPU and NIC products. The role involves defining power-aware architectures, developing models and methodologies, and driving power improvements across architecture, design, verification, and platform teams.

Experience Level

Mid-level — requires at least 5 years of relevant ASIC, microarchitecture, architecture, or performance engineering experience.

Responsibilities

The role focuses on improving silicon power efficiency across the product lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop architectures, algorithms, models, and methodologies to reduce power consumption for DPU and NIC products across design lifecycles.
• Lead research into power optimization techniques and power modeling approaches.
• Define power-aware architecture requirements and implementation strategies that balance power, performance, area, and design execution.
• Work with board, package, and physical-design teams to mitigate power-delivery, di/dt, thermal, and signal-integrity constraints.
• Collaborate with software, ASIC design, verification, and platform teams to implement end-to-end power improvements.

Requirements

Must-have qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in ASIC design, microarchitecture, architecture, or performance engineering.
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals; experience with digital design, front-end and back-end practices, power analysis, and characterization.
• Exceptional analytical and system-level problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication, teamwork, and ability to drive complex cross-disciplinary activities.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience as a hardware architect on high-end ASICs.
• Background in computer architecture focused on power management, optimization, characterization, or modeling.
• Proven track record of power or performance improvements on silicon products.
• Knowledge of physical-design back-end practices and their interaction with power-architecture decisions.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

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.