Senior Silicon Architect: Performance & Power Leader

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Silicon Product Architect to define the technical strategy for next-generation products by connecting silicon capabilities with customer workloads and system-level opportunities. As part of Silicon CoDesign, you'll own the Product Soul, advise engineering teams, mentor engineers, and guide architecture decisions from concept through silicon to shipping.

The role demands 12+ years in silicon or system performance and power, strong judgment translating customer needs

Qualifications

• 12+ years in silicon or system performance and power with ownership of product architecture or technical strategy.
• Strong judgment turning customer and business needs into measurable product goals.
• Deep silicon performance and power expertise including device behavior, voltage-frequency characteristics, process variation, power management, and thermal limits.
• Broad CPU, GPU, or SoC architecture knowledge including memory, interconnects, and hardware/software co-design.
• Experience with first-principles modeling, workload analysis, competitive benchmarking, statistics, and data analysis.
• Strong technical writing, presentation, and mentoring skills with influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Product Soul and set performance, power, and efficiency goals with clear priorities and tradeoffs.
• Architect next-generation performance and power features and system-level solutions from concept through silicon to shipping products.
• Benchmark architectures and guide investments to improve performance, power efficiency, and customer value.
• Define operating points, configurations, and binning strategies with engineering teams; validate models against silicon data.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and set a high standard for data analysis and communication.

Skills

Silicon experience

System performance

Power management

CPU architecture

GPU architecture

SoC architecture

First-principles modeling

Workload analysis

Data analysis

Technical writing

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in EE/CE/CS

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Silicon Product Architect to define the technical strategy for next-generation products by connecting silicon capabilities with customer workloads and system-level opportunities. As part of Silicon CoDesign, you'll own the Product Soul, advise engineering teams, mentor engineers, and guide architecture decisions from concept through silicon to shipping.

The role demands 12+ years in silicon or system performance and power, strong judgment translating customer needs