Principal SoC Architect: Edge AI for Robotics & Autonomy

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 272,000 - 489,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a Principal SoC Architect to define hardware that unifies NVIDIA GPUs, vision accelerators, and real-time processors for Edge AI, robotics, and autonomous driving platforms. You will drive architecture across micro-architecture to software layers.

The role emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, safety awareness, and production support for tier-1 robotics and automotive customers. Advanced degrees preferred.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of deep architecture design experience in high-performance silicon.
• Expertise in top-level SoC definition and architecture.
• Experience with robotics and automotive I/O interfaces (PCIe, TSN).
• Knowledge of RTOS, deterministic latency, and real-time compute.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end SoC lifecycle from concept to bring-up.
• Collaborate with software, DL and safety teams on hardware features.
• Model performance, power, area; optimize for automotive enclosures.
• Write architecture specs and develop validation models.
• Lead post-silicon debug, tuning and customer support.

Skills

SoC Architecture

RTOS & Real-Time

Cross-Functional Leadership

SystemC

C++ Programming

Education

Master’s or PhD in Computer or Electrical Engineering

Tools

SystemC

Python

C++

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a Principal SoC Architect to define hardware that unifies NVIDIA GPUs, vision accelerators, and real-time processors for Edge AI, robotics, and autonomous driving platforms. You will drive architecture across micro-architecture to software layers.

The role emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, safety awareness, and production support for tier-1 robotics and automotive customers. Advanced degrees preferred.