Senior Memory System Architect

NVIDIA; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking experienced engineers to advance memory system architecture for its world‑changing SOCs across AI, autonomous systems, robotics, and gaming. The role emphasizes architectural and micro‑architectural development, performance modeling, and collaboration within a distributed, product‑oriented team.

Ideal candidates hold an advanced degree with 3+ years in memory subsystems, DDR, caches, coherence protocols, and memory controllers.

Qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance.
• Deep understanding of memory subsystems– caches, DDR, memory controller, on-chip interconnects.
• Strong communication and ability to work in a distributed, product-oriented team.
• Exposure to Digital systems, VLSI design, Computer Architecture; C/C++ programming.
• Experience with C++, Python and/or Perl; Verilog or SV/UVM a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of architecture and micro-architecture for memory systems.
• Model and simulate features to improve performance and efficiency.
• Implement and maintain performance models, analyze benchmarks and workloads.
• Debug performance and functional issues with models, RTL, and silicon.

Skills

SoC architecture

Memory system architecture

Performance modeling

C/C++ programming

Team collaboration

Education

M.S./Ph.D. in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Verilog

SV/UVM

Python

C++

Job description

NVIDIA is searching for experienced candidates with a track record of architecture development to join our memory system architecture team! This team drives memory system architecture in NVIDIA’s world changing SOCs for deep-learning, autonomous vehicles and robotics, mobile systems, server systems, and gaming. NVIDIA has some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Are you a creative and autonomous engineer? If so, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing

• Driving development of architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in memory systems optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
• Performance modeling and simulation of features to improve memory system performance and efficiency.
• Implementing and maintaining detailed and high-level performance models.
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify tradeoffs in areas of micro-architectural optimizations.
• Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

What We Need To See

• M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance
• Deep understanding of memory subsystems – caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product oriented, distributed team.
• Exposure/coursework related to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, C/C++ programming languages.
• Software development experience with C++, python and/or perl. Verilog or SV/UVM are a plus.

Ways To Stand Out from the Crowd

• Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification.
• Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues.

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 uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.