Senior Silicon Power and Thermal Controllers Engineer

Location: US, CA, Santa Clara

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The Silicon Solutions Group (SSG) is where innovation meets impact. Our mission is to craft outstanding GPU, CPU, and SoC products that power Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Virtual Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Enterprise Servers, Visual Computing, Home Entertainment, Datacenters, Servers, Automotive, Embedded Systems, and more. From silicon design through software integration to final deployment, we drive NVIDIA's success across multiple market segments. Here, you'll find an outstanding opportunity to collaborate across the company, craft the future of technology, and advance your career in a role of significant influence. Our journey begins at the inception of ideas and extends to defining the products. We strive to push the boundaries of what's possible and make groundbreaking impacts.
 

What you'll be doing:
The Senior Silicon Power Performance Engineer focuses on developing and productizing power-performance and thermal-control mechanisms for all GPU, CPU, and SOC products. In this position, you will:

• Actively contribute to multi-functional teams to validate and implement silicon power and thermal features

• Debug power limiting constraints and drive efficient time-to-market product-specific customizations to overcome them

• Deliver system-level power optimizations spanning silicon, platform, software, and manufacturing for products ranging from large-scale data centers to low-power client devices.

• Partner with SSG's internal Tools team to further improve modeling & analysis infrastructure, test procedure, improve & implement new methodologies. 

• Work alongside system architects, chip and board designers, software/firmware engineers, Design/Power architecture engineers, Product Definition Engineers, ATE engineers, in a creative, high-energy work environment to bring industry-defining products to market

What we need to see:

• BS or MS in EE, CE, Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of Experience with implementing power and thermal controllers in firmware.

• Background with implementing system-level features, perf per watt optimization techniques, thermal policies, and data analysis and statistics tools.

• Experience with System-level silicon bringup and validation, DVFS, power characterization and modeling, performance analysis, and optimization.

• Exposure to digital design, circuit analysis, CPU/GPU/SOC architecture, PTPX, process technologies, and transistor/device physics.

• Experience working with offshore teams is required.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Strong collaborative and communication skills, specifically a demonstrated ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment

• Strive to be a standout colleague and be ready to work with global teams from diverse cultural backgrounds in a high-energy environment

• Background in gaming, automotive, and datacenter market segments is a plus

NVIDIA is widely considered one of the world’s most desirable technological employers. We have some of the world's most forward-thinking and dedicated people working for us. We want to hear from you if you're creative and passionate about developing the best silicon solutions.

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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.Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 17, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

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NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.