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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power Management - **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $224,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Microprocessors, Distributed Systems, Embedded Software, Firmware, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, System Programming, System Software, Strategies of Testing, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Concurrency, Information Technology - **Published:** September 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite/job/US-CA-Santa-Clara/Senior-System-Software-Engineer---GPU-Power-Management_JR2026256 ## About the Role * 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. Ways to Stand Out From the Crowd: * 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. ## Description NVIDIA is redefining accelerated computing and powering the next era of artificial intelligence. Our data-center platforms bring together GPUs, CPUs, networking, systems, and software to solve some of the world's most exciting computing problems. We are looking for a Senior System Software Engineer to join NVIDIA's GPU Performance and Power Management Software team. You will be responsible for architecting production software for performance states (P-states) and Power Management Controllers. Your work will also cover dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and power-management control system technologies for next-generation data-center GPUs. You will work at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads. Your responsibilities will span the entire product lifecycle-from initial architectural design and pre-silicon validation through silicon bring-up, productization, and deployment in extensive data-center infrastructures. This is an outstanding chance to influence how next-generation NVIDIA GPUs provide top-tier performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. What You'll Be Doing: * Architect, build, implement, and debug GPU power- and performance-management software, with particular emphasis on P-state management and DVFS. * Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize GPU performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under demanding data-center workloads. * Drive features across the full product lifecycle: 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 the power-management capabilities of next-generation processors. * 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 spanning 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 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. ## Related Videos - [Coffee with Developers - Stephen Jones - NVIDIA](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1303-coffee-with-developers-stephen-jones-nvidia) - [The Sustainability Race: AI's Promises, Pitfalls and Potential](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100155-the-sustainability-race-ai-s-promises-pitfalls-and-potential) - [Concurrency with Go](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/191-concurrency-with-go) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2133-building-the-nervous-system-of-ai-michael-kagan-nvidia) - [Accelerating Python on GPUs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/859-accelerating-python-on-gpus) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [What Jobs Can You Get with a Software Engineering Degree?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/398-what-jobs-can-you-get-with-a-software-engineering-degree) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again)