Distinguished Engineer, Power Architecture
$320,000 - $488,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 October 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 31 October 2026.
About the role
As a Distinguished Engineer, Power Architecture at NVIDIA, you will develop the long-term technical strategy for power architecture across datacenter GPUs, GeForce, DRIVE, Jetson, Isaac, and edge-AI platforms.
What you'll do
- Set multi-generation, cross-portfolio power strategy and own perf/watt across server-, client-, and edge-class platforms.
- Drive performance-versus-power analysis that influences major silicon trade-offs and product roadmap decisions.
- Lead silicon and vendor/IP co-architecture with external foundry, IP, and packaging partners.
- Architect thermal and system-level power management end-to-end, including ML- and workload-aware modeling and post-silicon optimization.
- Develop technical leaders and generate sustained intellectual property contributions.
What you'll need
- MSEE, MSCE, PhD, or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 18+ years of relevant industry and/or academic experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of power architecture across several silicon generations across server-class, client/mobile-class, or thermally-constrained SoC platforms.
- Applied expertise in the full stack of low-power and energy-efficient design techniques.
- Deep understanding of modern GPU, CPU, and accelerator architectures; high-speed interconnects (NVLink, PCIe, Ethernet, optical, automotive networks); memory subsystems (HBM, LPDDR, on-die SRAM); and firmware/OS runtime layers.
- Proven history of developing and implementing power and performance modeling methods, metrics, and tools used for pre-silicon projection and post-silicon validation.
Skills: perf/watt, power architecture, thermal, power management, low-power design techniques
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This role has been open 168 days — well above the 98-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Management
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Open roles in category
69
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Median days open
98 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$165k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (69 roles · 22 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 69 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 61 | 1552 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 199 d | 98 d (+101 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: perf/watt, power architecture, thermal, power management, low-power design techniques
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 14 open roles · median 101 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 79 d
- Infineon Technologies · 7 open roles · median 73 d
- Analog Devices · 5 open roles · median 99 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 5 open roles · median 225 d
- onsemi · 4 open roles · median 149 d
How we counted: 69 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 22 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.