AI/HPC CPU Performance Architect (Lead) – Equity Eligible

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior architect to advance CPU performance across AI, HPC, cloud, gaming, and autonomous vehicle workloads. The role focuses on workload bring-up, performance analysis, and system-level bottlenecks both in silicon and full-system simulators.

You will study real-world use-cases, collaborate with CPU and interconnect teams, and benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against the competition, guiding hardware and software improvements. Equity and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with CPU workloads and performance analysis.
• Knowledge of performance test development and benchmarking for CPU and I/O.
• Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and system architecture.
• Experience with the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) preferable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Work on workload bring-up and performance analysis/projection on silicon and full-system simulator.
• Study workloads for AI/DL, CSP, HPC, and autonomous vehicles.
• Study real world use-cases and identify critical application behavior and reduce to directed test cases.
• Analyze and debug performance scaling bottlenecks on multi-core and multi-socket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
• Work with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future CPU and system designs based on findings.
• Benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against competition and suggest software or hardware improvements.

Skills

CPU workloads

Performance analysis

Benchmarking

CPU microarchitecture

System architecture

ARM ISA

Education

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior architect to advance CPU performance across AI, HPC, cloud, gaming, and autonomous vehicle workloads. The role focuses on workload bring-up, performance analysis, and system-level bottlenecks both in silicon and full-system simulators.

You will study real-world use-cases, collaborate with CPU and interconnect teams, and benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against the competition, guiding hardware and software improvements. Equity and benefits apply.