Senior GPU Memory System Architect

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 287,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

Opportunity for equity

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior GPU Memory System Architect in Santa Clara to develop architecture and micro-architecture for GPU memory systems. Candidates should have 3+ years in GPU or CPU architecture and a master's degree in a relevant discipline. This role involves performance simulation, debugging, and mentoring junior engineers. Competitive salary range from $152,000 to $287,500 based on experience, with opportunities for equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU architecture.
• Experience in memory subsystem hierarchy and QoS.
• History of mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Developing architecture to improve GPU memory systems.
• Participating in performance simulation of features.
• Debugging performance and functional issues.

Skills

GPU or CPU Architecture

Interconnects

Memory management

Virtualization

Strong communication skills

Education

Master's degree in relevant field

PhD in computer architecture

Tools

PCIe

CXL

Job description

Senior GPU Memory System Architect page is loaded## Senior GPU Memory System Architectlocations: US, CA, Santa Claratime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR2014156NVIDIA is seeking a motivated architect to work with a team in solving complex problems while optimizing performance, area, complexity, and power on leading-edge silicon processes. This GPU memory architecture team creates new, innovative products tailored to NVIDIA’s world-changing solutions for data center, autonomous vehicles, AI, gaming, mobile systems.**What you will be doing:*** Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system, Memory management, Virtualization & security optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.* Participating in performance simulation of features to improve translation efficiency to access memory and io using protocol like PCIe.* 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 consider software interfaces to the GPU.* Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, silicon & systems.**What we need to see:*** Master degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field. A PhD with a focus in computer architecture is a plus.* 3+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in the area interconnects, QoS. Memory hierarchy, Memory model & ordering, multifunction HW accelerator, software, virtualization, and security.* Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product oriented, distributed team. Your history of successfully mentoring junior engineers and interns is a huge plus.**Ways to stand out from the crowd:*** Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, accelerator IPs, memory subsystem hierarchy.* Practical experience with multi-core systems, coherent interconnects & Industry IO protocol like PCIe/CXL, encryption, compression, confidential compute, or virtualization & security.Do you desireoptimizingWith competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented market opportunities, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for computer architecture and technology, we want to hear from you.Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4.You will also be eligible for equity and .Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 21, 2026.This posting is for an existing vacancy.NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.