Senior GPU Memory System Architect

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 241,500; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Gruppe is looking for a motivated architect to join the GPU memory architecture team in Santa Clara, California. This role involves developing innovative products to optimize memory systems for various applications including data centers and autonomous vehicles.

The successful candidate will have a Master's degree in a relevant field and 3+ years of hands-on experience in GPU or CPU architecture. Collaboration and mentorship abilities are highly valued. The position offers competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in GPU or CPU Architecture development.
• Experience in memory hierarchy and QoS.
• Strong interpersonal skills and team collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop architecture to improve GPU memory systems.
• Participate in performance simulations of GPU features.
• Create architectural specifications and documents.

Skills

GPU Architecture

Communication skills

Teamwork

Interconnects

Memory management

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

PhD in Computer Architecture

Tools

Performance simulation tools

RTL simulation tools

Job description

NVIDIA 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 protocols like PCIe.
• Implementing and maintaining high‑level functional and performance models.
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads and performance simulation results to identify areas for micro‑architecture 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.

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 benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate 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.