Senior AI Hardware Architect - Microarchitecture & Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Microarchitectural Architect to advance high-performance GPU/CPU systems. You will study applications on Nvidia hardware, propose microarchitectural solutions, and collaborate with software, firmware, and platform teams to optimize system performance and power efficiency.

We value deep knowledge of bus protocols, memory systems, security, and a track record of published architecture work. This is a challenging, impactful role in a dynamic, inclusive team.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience building high-performance microarchitectural structures.
• Clear understanding of performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills.
• A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth.
• Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking; 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. Understand them across a range of disciplines and identify areas for improvement.
• Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications
• Come up with 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 design

System performance optimization

Power management

Security implications

LLMs understanding

Interpersonal skills

Code and algorithms

Education

Master's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Bus protocols

Memory systems

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Microarchitectural Architect to advance high-performance GPU/CPU systems. You will study applications on Nvidia hardware, propose microarchitectural solutions, and collaborate with software, firmware, and platform teams to optimize system performance and power efficiency.

We value deep knowledge of bus protocols, memory systems, security, and a track record of published architecture work. This is a challenging, impactful role in a dynamic, inclusive team.