AI Hardware Architect — Equity Options for High-Performance Chips

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 287,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring an AI Hardware Architect to analyze and architect the next generation of AI hardware in Santa Clara, CA. This role focuses on high-performance microarchitectures for GPUs/CPUs, power management, security, and SOC-level concerns.

You will collaborate with software and firmware teams to optimize system performance and energy efficiency. Candidates should have a Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience, strong coding skills, and a track

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience building high performance microarchitectural structures.
• Understanding the performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills.
• Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills.
• Good understanding of LLMs.
• Publications or other evidence of original chip/system architecture work is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work on groundbreaking GPU and CPU systems.
• Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications.
• Propose microarchitectural solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, memory management and other SOC level issues.
• Understand and help drive implementation of bus protocols, networking protocols, memory access and security solutions across a range of products.
• Work with software, firmware, platform and multi-functional teams on system architecture.
• Model, analyze, and explain the performance and power advantages of Nvidia solutions.
• Guide customers and firmware engineers to extract the most performance from microarchitectural structures.

Skills

Microarchitecture

Bus protocols

Performance optimization

Coding & algorithms

LLMs understanding

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Job description

NVIDIA is hiring an AI Hardware Architect to analyze and architect the next generation of AI hardware in Santa Clara, CA. This role focuses on high-performance microarchitectures for GPUs/CPUs, power management, security, and SOC-level concerns.

You will collaborate with software and firmware teams to optimize system performance and energy efficiency. Candidates should have a Master's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience, strong coding skills, and a track