Senior Power and Performance Engineer

About the role

NVIDIA's Silicon Co-design Group (SCG) owns the full product development lifecycle, from early architecture definition through silicon bringup to product release. The ArchDev team drives system-level feature development, tradeoff analysis, system integration, and POR alignment across the organization. This is where your work goes from whiteboard to world-class silicon.

Responsibilities

• Architect and integrate system-level performance and power management features, controllers, and policies to optimize product efficiency across datacenter and client products.
• Build feature roadmaps to address low-power, low-noise, and performance-per-watt product needs through prototyping, use-case analysis, and cost/benefit trade-offs.
• Partner with architecture, ASIC, board/platform, software/firmware, and marketing teams to drive design decisions and debug complex issues.
• Track industry trends and market needs and translate them into forward-looking roadmaps that keep NVIDIA's products ahead of the curve.
• Lead debug efforts, develop workarounds, and support bringup, validation, manufacturing, and customer escalations.

Requirements

• BS or MS in EE/CE (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years in silicon power architecture, system-level design, validation, and power/performance optimization.
• Strong EE fundamentals: digital design, low power design, DVFS, control systems, power management, timing, and architecture.
• Solid understanding of firmware/driver structures and HW/SW interaction.
• Familiarity with clocking, boot/reset flows, and system architecture is a plus.
• Hands-on lab experience (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers) and silicon bringup exposure are a bonus.
• Programming proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Perl in Windows/Linux environments.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Skills

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership — experience driving alignment across architecture, silicon, firmware, and software teams on complex, ambiguous problems.
• System-level intuition — the ability to reason about power and performance holistically, not just at the block level, and to translate architectural tradeoffs into clear engineering decisions.
• AI-assisted engineering fluency — comfort using AI tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to accelerate analysis, workflows, generate and review scripts, synthesize technical documentation, and explore solution spaces faster. Candidates who treat AI as a force multiplier for their engineering judgment will be well-positioned for how NVIDIA's teams are evolving.

Benefits

Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package. NVIDIA is widely considered one of the technology industry’s most desirable employers.

Pay

Base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.