Senior Memory System Architect

NVIDIA; United States; On-site; USD 184,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking experienced engineers to join our memory system architecture team to drive architecture and micro-architecture for state-of-the-art memory subsystems across our SOCs for AI, automotive, robotics, and gaming.

You will model, simulate, and validate memory system features, analyze benchmarks, and debug issues across models, RTL, and silicon, contributing to power, performance, and area optimizations.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of SoC or memory system architecture and performance.
• Deep understanding of memory subsystems - caches, coherence, DDR and memory controller.
• Strong communication and teamwork in a distributed, product-oriented environment.
• Exposure to Digital systems and VLSI design; C/C++ programming.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and micro-architecture to improve memory systems performance and efficiency.
• Performance modeling and simulation of features to improve memory system performance.
• Implement and maintain detailed and high-level performance models.
• Analyze benchmarks, workloads, and performance results to identify tradeoffs in micro-architectural optimizations.
• Debug performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

Skills

Communication skills

C/C++ programming

Python

Verbal/Written communication

Education

MS or PhD in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience

Tools

Verilog/SV/UVM

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.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until August 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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