Senior SoC Architect, RAS

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Architect to define and deliver RAS hardware architecture for Tegra SoCs, spanning concepts through production readiness, ensuring high reliability for datacenters, autonomous vehicles, and edge systems.

You will work with world-class teams to implement fault detection, telemetry, recovery, and diagnostic observability, including space and radiation-aware considerations, with equity and benefits provided.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8+ years of SoC architecture, design, verification, reliability, silicon validation, or related hardware development experience.
• Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) in the SoC context, including fault detection, correction, containment, telemetry, recovery, and serviceability mechanisms.
• Experience defining and driving hardware architecture features through the full development lifecycle, including architecture definition, design implementation, verification planning, validation, debug, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SoC-level RAS hardware architecture across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, IOs, safety islands, firmware interfaces, and platform-level components.
• Own RAS features from concept through architecture specification, micro-architecture alignment, RTL implementation support, design verification, silicon validation, debug, and production readiness.
• Develop architectural requirements for fault detection, correction, containment, isolation, telemetry, error reporting, recovery, graceful degradation, serviceability, and diagnostic observability.
• Work closely with design, verification, validation, firmware, software, and platform teams to ensure RAS features are implementable, verifiable, debuggable, and aligned with system-level requirements.
• Understand the broader SoC architecture and identify how RAS mechanisms interact with performance, power, reset flows, clocks, memory hierarchy, interconnect behavior, firmware-visible controls, and platform software.
• Create hardware specifications, architectural requirements, error-handling flows, design guidance, test plans, and architectural models in SystemC, C/C++, Python, or other relevant modeling environments where applicable.
• Plan and review verification and validation strategies for RAS mechanisms, including error injection, recovery validation, coverage analysis, resiliency modeling, and cross-functional architecture reviews.
• Assist in failure analysis and silicon debug for lab, post-silicon, production, and field findings; develop diagnostic screens and localization methods for latent, intermittent, and environment-sensitive failures.
• Apply RAS architecture principles to high-reliability deployment environments, including space-aware and radiation-aware use cases where single-event effects, memory corruption, logic corruption, or cumulative radiation exposure may impact system reliability.
• Follow industry standards and best practices related to RAS, functional safety, semiconductor reliability, debuggability, verification, validation, and silicon testing.
• Patent novel hardware architecture techniques that improve system resiliency, observability, serviceability, and recovery.

Skills

SoC architecture

RAS expertise

Design verification

Silicon validation

Fault injection

Debug observability

Cross-functional collaboration

SystemC modeling

Education

MS or PhD in EE/CE

Tools

SystemC

C/C++

Python

Job description

We are now looking for a Senior Hardware Architect for our Tegra System-on-Chips (SoC) focused on Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS). Do you want to be part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution and help define resilient computing platforms for datacenters, autonomous vehicles, edge systems, and other high-reliability applications? We are looking for an exceptional SoC architect to help define, drive, and deliver RAS hardware architecture across advanced CPUs and SoCs, from early architectural concepts through design implementation, verification, validation, and production readiness.

This position offers the opportunity to have real impact in a dynamic, technology-focused company developing state-of-the-art processor and system architectures at the forefront of machine learning, autonomous vehicles, high-performance computing, and edge computing. You will work with world-class systems architects, RAS experts, design teams, verification teams, validation teams, firmware teams, and software partners to define end-to-end hardware RAS features that improve system resiliency, observability, debuggability, error containment, recovery, and serviceability. Space and radiation-aware design are important areas of interest for this role, including understanding how radiation effects can influence SoC reliability, but the primary focus is broad SoC RAS architecture and driving features successfully through the product development flow.

What you’ll be doing:

• Define and drive SoC-level RAS hardware architecture across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, IOs, safety islands, firmware interfaces, and platform-level components.
• Own RAS features from concept through architecture specification, micro-architecture alignment, RTL implementation support, design verification, silicon validation, debug, and production readiness.
• Develop architectural requirements for fault detection, correction, containment, isolation, telemetry, error reporting, recovery, graceful degradation, serviceability, and diagnostic observability.
• Work closely with design, verification, validation, firmware, software, and platform teams to ensure RAS features are implementable, verifiable, debuggable, and aligned with system-level requirements.
• Understand the broader SoC architecture and identify how RAS mechanisms interact with performance, power, reset flows, clocks, memory hierarchy, interconnect behavior, firmware-visible controls, and platform software.
• Create hardware specifications, architectural requirements, error-handling flows, design guidance, test plans, and architectural models in SystemC, C/C++, Python, or other relevant modeling environments where applicable.
• Plan and review verification and validation strategies for RAS mechanisms, including error injection, recovery validation, coverage analysis, resiliency modeling, and cross-functional architecture reviews.
• Assist in failure analysis and silicon debug for lab, post-silicon, production, and field findings; develop diagnostic screens and localization methods for latent, intermittent, and environment-sensitive failures.
• Apply RAS architecture principles to high-reliability deployment environments, including space-aware and radiation-aware use cases where single-event effects, memory corruption, logic corruption, or cumulative radiation exposure may impact system reliability.
• Follow industry standards and best practices related to RAS, functional safety, semiconductor reliability, debuggability, verification, validation, and silicon testing.
• Patent novel hardware architecture techniques that improve system resiliency, observability, serviceability, and recovery.

What we need to see:

• MS or PhD degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8+ years of SoC architecture, design, verification, reliability, silicon validation, or related hardware development experience.
• Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) in the SoC context, including fault detection, correction, containment, telemetry, recovery, degradation modes, debug visibility, and serviceability mechanisms.
• Experience defining and driving hardware architecture features through the full development lifecycle, including architecture definition, design implementation, verification planning, validation, debug, and production readiness.
• Strong understanding of overall SoC architecture and the ability to reason across micro-architecture, full-chip integration, firmware interfaces, software-visible behavior, platform flows, and customer use cases.
• Meaningful industry expertise in one or more SoC architecture areas such as RAS, safety, debug, clocks, resets, interconnects, memory controllers, IO technologies, platform integration, firmware-visible error handling, or diagnostic infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with design verification, silicon validation, fault injection, coverage analysis, resiliency modeling, diagnostic development, or reliability validation methodology.
• Familiarity with radiation effects, space operation, or other high-reliability deployment environments is strongly valued, including understanding how hardware architecture can mitigate single-event effects and related reliability risks.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, validation, and customer-facing teams.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Demonstrated history of architecting and delivering complex SoC RAS features across design, verification, validation, and production phases.
• Deep familiarity with architectural resiliency techniques such as ECC, parity, redundancy, replay, checkpoint/restart, scrubbing, isolation, containment, telemetry, error logging, recovery flows, and graceful degradation.
• Experience with cross-functional debug of hardware failures in simulation, emulation, post-silicon validation, production, customer deployments, or other high-reliability systems.
• Familiarity with Design for Debug, Design for Test, Design for Reliability, silicon observability, fault-injection methodology, and coverage-driven validation flows.
• Experience with radiation effects analysis, soft-error-rate analysis, radiation test campaigns, accelerated stress testing, heavy-ion or proton testing, or space qualification methodology.

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. If you are creative, autonomous, and motivated to define and deliver resilient SoC architectures that improve reliability, debuggability, and serviceability across demanding applications, 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 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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