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Principal Power and Thermal Architect

Nvidia

Santa Clara, California

Job description

Overview

In this role you will identify and shape system-level power and thermal co-design strategies that differentiate NVIDIA's platforms. You will lead end-to-end co-design from concept to production, coordinating across architecture, VLSI, software, and operations to land technologies. You will scan research and industry developments, build a product differentiation case, and drive adoption across teams. This is a hands-on opportunity to turn research ideas into production-scale solutions with impact on datacenter and platform performance. You'll work in a cross-functional, innovation-driven environment focused on scalable, energy-efficient computing.

Compensation / Benefits
  • equity
  • benefits
  • salary range awareness
  • career growth opportunities
  • inclusive work environment
Responsibilities
  • Architect next-gen system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions
  • Scan research, academia, standards bodies, silicon/memory/packaging/platform partners for emerging ideas
  • Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to production and align across architecture, VLSI, software, platform, packaging, and operations
  • Shape workload-aware power and thermal controls, telemetry, platform-scale energy buffering, and aging/interpolation with memory co-design
  • Maintain a living intercept pipeline, track candidates and productization status, brief leadership on future directions
  • Collaborate with system architects, engineers, manufacturing partners, and external researchers to bring next-gen products to market
  • Influence multiple teams to land selected technologies in production
Key requirements
  • 15+ years in system-level power, thermal, or related architecture with deep expertise in at least one area listed
  • External technical recognition and active contributions to standards or technical communities
  • Track record of translating research ideas into measurable product impact
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across functions without direct authority
  • Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills
  • strong collaboration and cross-functional influence
  • communication and leadership in presenting complex ideas to leadership
  • problem-solving and partnership orientation
  • system power management
  • system thermal architecture
  • platform energy architecture

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