Senior Power Architect, Power and Performance Analysis Tools
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, United States · 1mo ago
We are seeking a highly motivated power architect to own and advance a critical power estimation and analysis platform used to guide architecture and product decisions. This role sits at the intersection of software development, system architecture, performance modeling, and silicon analysis.
You will develop the tools and methodologies that help architects understand power-performance behavior, evaluate performance-per-watt trade-offs, model representative workloads, and correlate early estimates with silicon telemetry. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with a deep curiosity about how modern SoCs consume power and deliver performance.
What you’ll be doing:
Own the architecture, development, validation, and long-term roadmap of our power estimation and analysis tools.
Develop scalable, maintainable software for estimating and analyzing power and performance across workloads, use cases, and product configurations.
Build models that translate architectural parameters, workload behavior, utilization, and telemetry into actionable power-performance insights.
Enable rapid analysis of architectural trade-offs, including performance, power, energy efficiency, thermals, and performance per watt.
Develop workload models and representative usage scenarios for early architecture exploration and product analysis.
Integrate silicon telemetry, performance counters, power measurements, and simulation data into a unified analysis framework.
Correlate pre-silicon estimates with post-silicon measurements, identify modeling gaps, and continuously improve prediction accuracy.
Create automation, visualization, and reporting capabilities that make complex analysis accessible to architects and engineering teams.
Partner with architecture, performance, power, thermal, firmware, validation, and silicon teams to define requirements and drive technical decisions.
Establish sound software-engineering practices, including modular design, code reviews, testing, documentation, version control, and release management.
Serve as the technical owner and subject-matter expert for the tool, supporting users while growing a community of contributors.
What we need to see:
A Masters in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related STEM field—or equivalent experience. 6 years of relevant work experience
Strong software development skills in Python, C++, or similar languages, with experience building production-quality engineering tools.
Understanding of computer or SoC architecture, including processors, memory systems, interconnects, accelerators, and power-management concepts.
Experience with power and performance estimation, performance modeling, architectural exploration, or system-level analysis.
Ability to evaluate architecture trade-offs using metrics such as performance per watt, energy per task, utilization, latency, throughput, and bandwidth.
Experience modeling workloads or analyzing how workload characteristics affect system power and performance.
Familiarity with silicon telemetry, performance-monitoring counters, power sensors, traces, logs, or lab measurement data.
Strong data-analysis and debugging skills, including the ability to correlate results from multiple sources and explain unexpected behavior.
Experience designing maintainable software with clear interfaces, automated testing, documentation, and reproducible workflows.
Demonstrated ability to take ownership of an ambiguous technical area and drive it from requirements through implementation and adoption. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear recommendations.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Experience developing power or performance models for complex SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, or automotive platforms.
Knowledge of dynamic power management, DVFS, clock and power gating, thermal management, idle states, and workload-driven resource management.
Familiarity with statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, or sensitivity analysis applied to power-performance prediction.
A track record of turning prototype scripts into reliable, widely adopted engineering platforms.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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