NVIDIA
Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management
$224K–$431K
US, CA, Santa Clara +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, WA, Remote
US, CA, Remote - Experience
- At least 12+ years.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architects and delivers datacenter power-management software, including real-time controls and cluster-level provisioning, across the product lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Build, debug, and validate datacenter power- and performance-management software for racks and data halls.
- Develop controls and policies that optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
- Lead features and issue resolution across architecture, validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
- At least 12+ years of industry experience in system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
- Strong C programming skills and experience maintaining complex low-level software.
- Deep knowledge of operating-system fundamentals, device drivers, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupts, and hardware programming.
Nice to have
- Datacenter provisioning, monitoring, and power management experience at a CSP/NCP.
- Experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power management, including real-time feedback controllers.
Pay
224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary); 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
C
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