# Senior System Software Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior System Software Engineer to join its Datacenter Performance and Power Management Software team. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting production software for datacenter power management controllers, as well as cluster-level dynamic provisioning and power-management control system technologies for next-generation data centers.

The role involves working at the intersection of hardware architecture, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, and AI workloads. Responsibilities 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.

Key responsibilities include:

- Architecting, building, implementing, and debugging data center power and performance-management software

- Developing real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms that dynamically optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency

- Collaborating with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces

- Analyzing complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies

- Leading the investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues

- Developing validation strategies and automation for functional correctness, transition latency, performance-per-watt, and robustness

Requirements include:

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

- 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

- Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming

Preferred qualifications include:

- 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

- Experience developing real-time feedback controllers

- Understanding of electrical and platform considerations such as voltage-frequency relationships, transient power, thermal limits, power delivery, and system-level power budgets

## Skills

### Required
- C programming
- operating system fundamentals
- device driver architecture
- embedded software
- real-time software
- concurrency
- interrupt handling
- hardware programming
- computer architecture

### Nice to have
- datacenter provisioning
- power and performance management
- GPU
- CPU
- accelerator
- SoC
- real-time feedback controllers

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