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Distinguished Engineer, Power Architecture

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $320,000–$320,000🗓 2026-05-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define long-term technical strategy for power architecture and perf/watt standards across NVIDIA's silicon and systems portfolio including datacenter GPUs, client products, automotive, robotics, and edge-AI.

Role type

Distinguished Engineer, Power Architecture (Strategy & Technical Leadership)

Builds

Next-generation silicon architectures, power management systems, and perf/watt optimization strategies for high-volume server, mobile, automotive, and edge platforms.

Domain

Semiconductor / Hardware Architecture / Power Electronics / AI Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Power architecture design, perf/watt optimization, thermal management, silicon co-architecture, low-power design techniques, system-level modeling, cross-portfolio strategy, technical leadership, IP generation, stakeholder influence

Preferred skills

Model-to-hardware co-optimization, liquid/immersion cooling architecture, ML for power modeling, RTL/microarchitecture background, mentoring Distinguished-level engineers

Technologies

NVLink, PCIe, Ethernet, optical networks, HBM, LPDDR, on-die SRAM, DVFS, AVFS, liquid cooling, immersion cooling

Responsibilities

Set multi-generation cross-portfolio power strategy, own perf/watt across server/client/edge platforms, drive performance-versus-power analysis for silicon trade-offs, lead silicon and vendor/IP co-architecture, define new technology frontiers, architect thermal and system-level power management, drive ML- and workload-aware modeling, influence company and industry standards, develop next-generation technical leaders

Seniority

Distinguished, Strategy & Technical Leadership

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