Senior System Software Engineer, Datacenter Power Management

Nvidia

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$224,000–$356,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $194k
This role $290k
$127k most similar roles pay here $381k

This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $151,562–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $290k versus about $194k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Nvidia

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

Nvidia currently has 1371 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$287,500 across 1096 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Nvidia

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior System Software Engineer, Datacenter Power Management

As a Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management, you will join the Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team to architect production software for datacenter power management controllers. You will develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency across racks and data halls. Your work involves managing the full product lifecycle, from pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up and deployment in large infrastructures. The role requires expert proficiency in C to develop low-level software, including device drivers, embedded firmware, and operating system fundamentals like concurrency and interrupt handling. You will solve complex problems involving hardware-software interfaces, telemetry, and power-management capabilities for next-generation processors. Key technical focus areas include DVFS, clock-control, voltage-control, and power-capping to ensure reliability and performance under demanding data-center workloads across various operating conditions.

More like this

Similar roles

System Software Engineer, GPU Power and Performance Management

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 5 days ago $124,000–$195,500
C Kernel Software Device Drivers Computer Architecture DVFS P-states Firmware Hardware-Software Interface Telemetry Analysis Scripting Automation Silicon Bring-up Pre-silicon Validation Power Management Thermal Management
2+ yrs exp

Senior System Software Engineer, GPU Server

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 139 days ago $184,000–$287,500
C++ C CUDA OpenGL Computer Architecture Operating Systems PCIe NVLink Infiniband Ethernet System Software Debugging High-Performance Computing
8+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer

Nvidia

Remote (Seattle, WA) +1 3 days ago $152,000–$241,500
Kubernetes Go Linux Ansible Terraform CI/CD GitLab Argo Flux Cloud Native Distributed Systems
5+ yrs exp Remote

Senior System Software Engineer, AV Platform

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 36 days ago $152,000–$241,500
C++ C Python Linux QNX ROS Real-Time Operating Systems Embedded Systems GPU Threading Mutex Synchronization Parallel Computing Data Serialization System Architecture Performance Optimization Source Control
5+ yrs exp