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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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- Work format
- On-site
- Seniority
- Lead
- Posted
- 23 Sept 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days
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