Senior System Software Engineer – Datacenter Power Management

NVIDIA

. Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software, emphasizing end-to-end power management at racks and data halls .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $224,000 - $431,250 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in architecting and implementing data center power management software, with a strong focus on real-time performance optimization and hardware-software integration. Proficient in debugging complex systems across multiple layers, ensuring robust and efficient power management solutions.

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C ProgrammingEmbedded Firmware DevelopmentPower Management ArchitectureReal-Time Software OptimizationDevice Driver Development

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Hard Skills

C ProgrammingEmbedded FirmwareDevice DriversReal-Time ControllersPower ManagementTelemetry AnalysisConcurrencyInterrupt HandlingSystem SoftwareHardware Programming

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCollaboration Across Teams

Tools & Technologies

GPUCPUSoCCSPNCP

Industry Keywords

Data Center ManagementPower Performance ManagementThermal ManagementVoltage ControlP-State Selection

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software, emphasizing end-to-end power management at racks and data halls
Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads
Drive features across 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 and influence power-management capabilities of next-generation processors
Analyze interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies
Lead investigation and resolution of power, performance, stability, and reliability issues across firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software
Develop validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness across operating conditions
Build 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Background with architecting, designing, or implementing datacenter provisioning, monitoring, and managing power at a CSP/NCP
Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management
Background with crafting or implementing P-state selection, DVFS, clock-control, voltage-control, power-capping, thermal-management, throttling, or workload-aware control policies
Experience developing real-time feedback controllers, including reasoning about stability, responsiveness, hysteresis, latency, and noisy telemetry
Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets

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