NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. This role focuses on architecting production software for datacenter power management controllers and involves working at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads. The engineer will influence how next-generation NVIDIA GPUs achieve top-tier performance and energy efficiency. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the entire product lifecycle from design to deployment in extensive data-center infrastructures.

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
• At least 12+ years of extensive industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
• Strong programming skills in C, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
• Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or 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 problems across multiple software and hardware layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.

• Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software.
• Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
• Drive features across the full product lifecycle including requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
• Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces.
• Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues.
• Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness.
• Build clear architecture, interface, and compose specifications for new power-management features.
• Partner with geographically distributed architecture, ASIC, firmware, driver, validation, platform, and data-center systems teams.

• Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.