Senior System Software Engineer - Datacenter Power Management
$224,000 - $431,250 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves architecting production software for datacenter power management controllers, covering cluster-level dynamic provisioning and power-management control system technologies.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, implement, and debug data center power and performance-management software, focusing on end-to-end power management.
- Develop real-time controllers, policies, and mechanisms to optimize performance, power, thermals, and energy efficiency under datacenter workloads.
- Drive features across the full product lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, productization, and production support.
- Collaborate with GPU architects and hardware designers to define hardware-software interfaces and influence power-management capabilities.
- Analyze complex interactions among workloads, clocks, voltages, power limits, thermals, telemetry, and system-level policies.
- Lead investigation and resolution of complex power, performance, stability, and reliability issues spanning firmware, drivers, hardware, and platform software.
What you'll need
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of industry experience crafting system software, embedded firmware, device drivers, or other hardware-related production software.
- Strong programming skills in C, including experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex low-level software.
- Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, device-driver architecture, embedded or real-time software, concurrency, interrupt handling, and hardware programming.
- Experience interpreting hardware specifications and developing software interfaces for registers, telemetry, interrupts, and control mechanisms.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software interactions.
Skills: datacenter power management, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, hardware-software interfaces
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
679
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (679 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 140 | 679 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 1001 | 5948 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 57 d (−10 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: datacenter power management, embedded firmware, device drivers, operating systems, hardware-software interfaces
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 162 open roles · median 64 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 132 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 51 d
- Broadcom · 26 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 24 open roles · median 63 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 90 d
How we counted: 679 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Sept 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.