# Senior Power and Performance Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Senior Power and Performance Engineer

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Power and Performance Engineer to join our Silicon Co-design Group (SCG). As a member of our team, you will be responsible for architecting and integrating system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products.

### Key Responsibilities:

- Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products.

- Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs.

- Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues.

- Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve.

- Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations.

### Requirements:

- BS or MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years in silicon power architecture, system-level design, validation, and power/performance optimization.

- Strong EE fundamentals: digital design, low power design, DVFS, control systems, power management, timing, and architecture.

- Solid understanding of firmware/driver structures and HW/SW interaction.

- Familiarity with clocking, boot/reset flows, and system architecture is a plus.

- Hands-on lab experience (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers) and silicon bring-up exposure are a bonus.

- Programming proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Perl in Windows/Linux environments.

- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

### What Sets You Apart:

- Demonstrated cross-functional leadership - experience driving alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, and software teams on complex, ambiguous problems.

- System-level intuition - the ability to reason about power and performance holistically, not just at the block level, and to translate architectural tradeoffs into clear engineering decisions.

- AI-assisted engineering fluency - comfort using AI tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to accelerate analysis, workflows, generate and review scripts, synthesize technical documentation, and explore solution spaces faster.

### Benefits:

- Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package.

- Eligibility for equity.

### How to Apply:

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 2, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

## Skills

### Required
- silicon power architecture
- system-level design
- validation
- power/performance optimization
- digital design
- low power design
- DVFS
- control systems
- power management
- timing
- architecture
- firmware/driver structures
- HW/SW interaction
- clocking
- boot/reset flows
- system architecture
- C/C++
- Python
- Perl
- Windows/Linux environments
- problem-solving
- collaboration
- communication

### Nice to have
- cross-functional leadership
- system-level intuition
- AI-assisted engineering fluency

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