Principal Engineer, Data Center Power Software
Company: NVIDIA
Location: Seattle, WA 98105
Salary: $272,000 - $431,250 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-23
About this role
NVIDIA is leading the way in groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Visualization. The GPU, our invention, serves as the visual cortex of modern computers and is at the heart of our products and services. Our work opens up new universes to explore, enables amazing creativity and discovery, and powers what were once science fiction inventions from artificial intelligence to autonomous cars. NVIDIA is looking for phenomenal people like you to help us accelerate the next wave of artificial intelligence.
What you'll be doing:
- Gathering use cases + requirements, translating those into software roadmaps, and executing those roadmaps across internal NVIDIA teams and external partners.
- Reporting project status, risks, help needed, and roadmap pivots to internal and external executives via status reports and in-person meetings.
- Brokering technical discussions between highly technical subject matter experts
- Leveraging AI tools and workflows to quickly iterate on designs, prototypes, documentation, tests, and code.
- Architecting distributed, robust, and scalable GoLang and Rust system software, deployed to monitor and manage large datacenters
## What we need to see:
- BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 15+ years of meaningful industry experience with a strong scalable system software development background
- Experience with APIs and interface design. Experience with AI tools and development workflows
- Outstanding written and verbal interpersonal skills. Business level English. Strong motivation and commitment to learn new skills
- Ability to manage time in a fast, heavily multitasked environment. Development experience with Rust, Python, and/or GoLang.
- Development experience with distributed systems and concurrent applications, especially in a Kubernetes environment
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar technical domains, identify core problems, and translate ambiguous requirem...