Senior Power and Performance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products.
• Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs.
• Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues.
• Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve.
• Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bringup, validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations.
• What We Need to See:
• BS or MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years in silicon power architecture, system-level design, validation, and power/performance optimization.
• Strong EE fundamentals: digital design, low power design, DVFS, control systems, power management, timing, and architecture.
• Solid understanding of firmware/driver structures and HW/SW interaction.
• Familiarity with clocking, boot/reset flows, and system architecture is a plus.
• Hands-on lab experience (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers) and silicon bringup exposure are a bonus.
• Programming proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Perl in Windows/Linux environments.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ways to Stand Out in a Crowd:
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership - experience driving alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, and software teams on complex, ambiguous problems.
• System-level intuition - the ability to reason about power and performance holistically, not just at the block level, and to translate architectural tradeoffs into clear engineering decisions.
• #LI-Hybrid
• Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits .
• Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 29, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
• NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

Additional Information

NVIDIA's Silicon Co-design Group (SCG) sits at a rare intersection: we own the full product development lifecycle, from early architecture definition through silicon bringup to product release. Our ArchDev team is the hub for silicon and system-level feature development, driving tradeoff analysis, system integration, and POR alignment across the entire organization. If you want to see your work go from whiteboard to world-class silicon, this is where that happens.

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