Principal Power and Performance Architect

Nvidia

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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Power and Performance Architect

As a Principal Power and Performance Architect within the Silicon Solutions Team, you will influence and drive next-generation power management features from initial architecture through final product delivery. You will be responsible for architecting system-level power optimizations across silicon, platform, software, manufacturing, and product systems for diverse segments ranging from large-scale datacenters to low-power client devices. Your daily work involves evaluating industry trends, developing methodologies for power modeling and measurement, characterizing features, and correlating silicon behavior with simulations. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams including hardware, firmware, and software engineers to solve complex power management challenges. Required expertise includes transistor and device physics, active power management, product binning methods, and data analysis statistics. The role requires deep knowledge of CPU/GPU/SoC architecture and experience in silicon bringup, validation, and frequency characterization.

What you'll do

  • Architect next-generation power management features from initial design through final product production.
  • Identify industry trends and use cases to develop the roadmap for competitive power optimization products.
  • Drive system-level power optimizations across silicon, platform, software, manufacturing, and product systems.
  • Lead teams in defining requirements and schedules for power features from architecture to silicon phases.
  • Develop methodologies for power modeling, measurement, and characterization of specific power features.
  • Correlate actual silicon behavior with simulations to provide actionable feedback to the design team.
  • Analyze product-level power and performance data to optimize products for datacenter and client devices.

What we're looking for

  • MS or PhD in EE, CE, CS, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of experience in silicon and product power and power management.
  • Expertise in silicon power, transistor/device physics, power modeling and measurement, and active power management.
  • Experience with system level features, product binning methods, optimization techniques, and data analysis tools.
  • Experience working with offshore teams.
  • Experience with product level power and performance analysis and optimization.
  • Background in the datacenter market segment (preferred).
  • Familiarity with silicon bringup, validation, frequency/power characterization, and HW-SW co-design (preferred).

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