# Principal Power and Thermal Innovation Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Power and Thermal Innovation Architect to join the Silicon Co-Design Group (SCG). As a Principal Architect, you will scout the research and industry landscape, identify emerging system-level co-design ideas in power and thermal, and drive them across teams into product differentiation across NVIDIA's roadmap.

Responsibilities:

- Architect next-generation system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions.

- Build the product differentiation case for each candidate idea, focusing on performance, power, reliability, schedule, cost, and feasibility.

- Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to product, driving alignment across architecture, VLSI, software, platform, packaging, and operations teams.

- Shape innovation across workload-aware power and thermal controls, closed-loop platform telemetry, datacenter-class power compliance, platform-scale energy buffering, advanced cooling intercepts, and emerging memory co-design.

- Maintain a living intercept pipeline, tracking candidates, productization status, decision gates, and product axes.

- Collaborate with system architects, platform and software engineers, manufacturing partners, and external researchers to bring next-generation products to market.

Requirements:

- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- 15+ years in system-level power, thermal, or related architecture, with deep expertise in at least one of: system power management, system thermal architecture, platform energy architecture, workload-aware power and thermal controls, or memory co-design.

- External technical recognition, premier publications, patents, or industry standards contributions, and active contributions to standards bodies, consortia, or external technical communities.

- Track record of taking research-grade ideas through system co-design and into measurable product impact.

- Demonstrated multi-functional influence in aligning teams across the company without direct reporting authority.

- Excellent problem-solving, partnership, and social skills.

Benefits:

- Equity

- Benefits package

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- system-level power management
- system thermal architecture
- platform energy architecture
- workload-aware power and thermal controls
- memory co-design

### Nice to have
- PhD or equivalent experience with sustained research contributions
- Machine learning or data-driven techniques applied to system power, thermal modeling, or design-space exploration
- Background in system reliability and variability, managing aging based on usage patterns, RAS, lifecycle management, and the intersection with power and thermal
- Hands-on familiarity with emerging memory technologies, including advanced HBM and stacked memory
- Active contributions to standards bodies, consortia, or external technical communities

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