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Senior Power Architect, Power and Performance Analysis Tools

Nvidia

San Jose, California

Job description

Overview

In this role you own and evolve a critical power estimation and analysis platform that guides architecture and product decisions. You will develop scalable tools to model power, performance, and workloads across configurations, aligning pre-silicon estimates with silicon telemetry. You collaborate with architecture, performance, power, thermal, and firmware teams to enable rapid analysis of trade-offs and produce actionable insights. You drive the platform's roadmap, maintenance, and community of contributors, shaping how we understand energy efficiency in modern SoCs.

Compensation / Benefits
  • equity
  • benefits
Responsibilities
  • Own the architecture, development, validation, and long-term roadmap of power estimation and analysis tools
  • Develop scalable software to estimate and analyze power and performance across workloads and configurations
  • Build models translating architectural parameters, workload behavior, utilization, and telemetry into power-performance insights
  • Enable rapid analysis of architectural trade-offs (performance, power, energy efficiency, thermals, and PPD)
  • Model workloads and usage scenarios for early architecture exploration and product analysis
  • Integrate silicon telemetry, performance counters, power measurements, and simulation data into a unified framework
  • Correlate pre-silicon estimates with post-silicon measurements and improve prediction accuracy
  • Create automation, visualization, and reporting to make analysis accessible to engineers
  • Partner with architecture, performance, power, thermal, firmware, validation, and silicon teams to drive decisions
  • Establish sound software-engineering practices (modular design, reviews, testing, docs, version control, release management)
  • Serve as technical owner and SME for the tool, supporting users and growing a contributor community
Key requirements
  • Masters in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related STEM field, or equivalent experience
  • 6 years of relevant work experience
  • Strong software development in Python, C++, or similar for production-quality tools
  • Understanding of computer/SoC architecture (processors, memory, interconnects, accelerators, power-management)
  • Experience with power and performance estimation, modeling, or system-level analysis
  • Ability to evaluate architecture trade-offs using metrics like P over W, energy per task, utilization, latency, throughput, bandwidth
  • Experience modeling workloads and analyzing their power/performance impact
  • Familiarity with silicon telemetry, performance counters, power sensors, traces, logs, or lab data
  • Strong data-analysis and debugging skills to correlate results across sources
  • Experience designing maintainable software with testing, documentation, and reproducible workflows
  • Proven ability to own an ambiguous technical area from requirements to implementation and adoption
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to translate findings into recommendations
  • excellent communication
  • collaboration
  • ownership
  • Python
  • C++
  • power estimation

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