Senior GPU Memory Architect — Lead Memory Performance

NVIDIA; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA in Durham, NC is seeking a Senior GPU Memory Architect to design and optimize memory systems for cutting-edge GPUs. You will work on architecture and micro-architecture to improve performance, power, area, and schedule across leading-edge silicon processes.

Join a distributed, product-focused team with mentorship of junior engineers, and opportunities to influence hardware-software interfaces and industry collaborations.

Qualifications

• Master degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field; PhD is a plus.
• 6+ years of GPU/CPU architecture experience, focusing on memory caching and interconnects.
• Strong communication and ability to work in a dynamic, distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system and memory management optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
• Participating in performance simulation of features to improve memory access efficiency.
• Implementing and maintaining high-level functional and performance models.
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads and performance simulation results to identify areas for microarchitecture optimizations.
• Defining and performing experiments to study the machine in action, presenting experiment results to the larger group and proposing mechanisms for improvement.
• Creating architectural specifications and customer-facing documents. Working with partners in the industry to generate specifications which take into account software interfaces to the GPU.
• Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

Skills

GPU Architecture

Memory caching

Interconnects

Memory management unit

Prefetching

Multi-core systems

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

PhD a plus

Job description

NVIDIA in Durham, NC is seeking a Senior GPU Memory Architect to design and optimize memory systems for cutting-edge GPUs. You will work on architecture and micro-architecture to improve performance, power, area, and schedule across leading-edge silicon processes.

Join a distributed, product-focused team with mentorship of junior engineers, and opportunities to influence hardware-software interfaces and industry collaborations.