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Principal Power and Thermal Architect

NVIDIA

US, CA, Santa Clara · On-site · relocation$19,333–30,667 gross/mofull-timeNVIDIA Careers (offices abroad)

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It's a unique legacy of innovation that's fueled by great technology and amazing people.

Responsibilities

  • Architect next-generation system, platform, and datacenter-level power and thermal co-design solutions. Scan internal research, academia, standards bodies, and silicon, memory, packaging, and platform partners for what is emerging.
  • Build the product differentiation case for each candidate idea, performance, power, reliability, schedule, cost, and brainstorm what is worth pursuing.
  • Lead end-to-end co-design from concept to product.
  • Drive alignment across architecture, VLSI, software, platform, packaging, and operations teams to land selected technologies in production.
  • Shape innovation across workload-aware power and thermal controls, closed-loop platform telemetry, datacenter-class power compliance, platform-scale energy buffering, advanced cooling intercepts, and emerging memory co-design.
  • Maintain a living intercept pipeline. Track candidates, productization status, decision gates, and product axes. Brief SCG and broader NVIDIA leadership on what is next.
  • Collaborate with system architects, platform and software engineers, manufacturing partners, and external researchers to bring next-generation products to market.
  • What we need to see
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years in system-level power, thermal, or related architecture, with deep expertise in at least one of: system power management, system thermal architecture, platform energy architecture, workload-aware power and thermal controls, or memory co-design.

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