Senior GPU Low Power Architect

About the role

We are looking for a Senior GPU Low Power Architect within our Hardware Team! NVIDIA is known as a world leader in providing energy-efficient high-performance products, and we continue to invest in the research and development of hyper-efficient GPU and SOC architectures that power AI, Automotive, Graphics, and Mobile products.

Responsibilities

• Invent and innovate low power architectural/RTL solutions and drive features and roadmaps for improving efficiency of our Desktop, Notebook and server platforms.
• Work cross functionally with other System/SW Architects, and Product engineers to understand energy efficiency improvements.
• Architect, Design and Verify features to help improve battery life and energy efficiency.
• Participate in architectural studies, tradeoff analysis, micro-architecture, and design, planning, verification, and validation efforts.
• Contribute to the development of techniques to develop highly accurate power and performance models for our GPUs, CPUs, Switches, and platforms.
• Drive performance vs power analysis to enable management/marketing with meaningful product decisions and customer interaction.

Requirements

• MSEE/MSCE (or equivalent experience) and 4 + years’ proven experience or PhD, with a specialization in Low Power Architectures or energy efficient design techniques is essential.
• Design experience with industry tools such as SystemVerilog RTL, UVM, Verdi, UPF, VCS NLP, Python, C++ are essential.
• Cross-discipline experience with understanding of HW/SW/System level interactions in important power efficiency scenarios.
• Solid understanding of advanced digital and analog circuits is highly desirable.
• Exposure to lab setup including power measurement equipment such as scope/DAQ.
• Your ability to analyze board-level power issues like supply voltage, over-current etc is helpful.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and the ability & desire to work as a phenomenal teammate

Qualifications

• Background with HW/SW interactions
• Experience with Power what iffs and tradeoffs
• Experience in Clock tree power reduction and CG strategies
• Background with RAM power optimization
• Experience with directed and random functional testing including writing test plans and directed or random diagnostics

Benefits

Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA leads the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 218,500 USD for Level 3, and 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4.

Schedule

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Application Instructions

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until January 30, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.