NVIDIA
Senior System Software Engineer - GPU Power and Performance Management
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs and supports production GPU power and performance software, including P-state management and DVFS, across the product lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Develop and debug GPU power-management software and control policies to optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency.
- Drive features from requirements and architecture through validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
- Investigate cross-layer issues and build validation strategies and automation for power, performance, stability, and reliability.
What they ask for
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of industry experience in system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
- Strong C programming skills developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
- Understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupts, hardware programming, and computer architecture.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with GPU, CPU, accelerator, or SoC power and performance management.
- Experience with DVFS, control policies, real-time feedback controllers, or low-level software validation and automation.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
C, GPU, P-states, DVFS
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