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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
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Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power and Performance Management will join the GPU Performance and Power Management Software team to design, develop, and debug production software for performance states and Power Management Controllers. The role involves building control policies and real-time software to optimize power, thermals, and energy efficiency for next-generation data-center GPUs. Key responsibilities include managing dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, defining hardware-software interfaces, and resolving complex stability issues across firmware, drivers, and platform software. Candidates must possess strong C programming skills and a deep understanding of operating system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, and computer architecture. The work focuses on the intersection of hardware architecture and AI workloads, requiring expertise in interpreting hardware specifications for registers and telemetry while managing power-management capabilities throughout the full product lifecycle from pre-silicon development to production support.
Design, develop, and debug GPU power management software focusing on P-states and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS).
Develop control policies and real-time software to optimize performance, thermals, and energy efficiency for data-center workloads.
Manage the full product lifecycle including requirements, architecture, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, and production support.
Define hardware-software interfaces in collaboration with GPU architects and hardware designers.
Analyze complex interactions between workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, and system-level telemetry.
Resolve complex stability and reliability issues across firmware, device drivers, and platform software.
Create validation strategies and automation for functional correctness and performance-per-watt metrics.
Build scalable architecture frameworks to influence next-generation system software capabilities.
What we're looking for
BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of extensive industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
Strong programming skills in C for developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
Proven ability to independently debug complex, cross-layer problems across software and hardware.
Experience with GPU/CPU power management, DVFS, or real-time feedback controllers (preferred).
C
C++
Python
Firmware
Kernel Drivers
ARM
Power Management
DVFS
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Data Center
Simulation
Emulation
Memory-Mapped IO
Interrupts
CUDA
C++
C
GPU
Kernel Software
performance-engineering
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Concurrency
Memory Management
Python
HPC
Deep Learning
Profiling
Firmware
Hardware/Software Co-design
Pre-silicon Analysis
C++
C
Linux
System Software
Hardware Architecture
Device Programming
Algorithms
High-Performance Computing
DMA
Memory Controllers
Emulation
Product Hardening
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