Senior SoC Architect: RAS for High‑Reliability Systems

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Hardware Architect to define and drive RAS‑focused SoC hardware architecture for Tegra. You will own end‑to‑end RAS features from concept to silicon validation, collaborating with design, verification, firmware, software, and platform teams to ensure observable, debuggable, and recoverable systems at scale.

The role emphasizes space and radiation awareness, fault containment, telemetry, and diagnostic observability.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SoC-level RAS hardware architecture across CPUs and memory systems.
• Own RAS features from concept through architecture and silicon validation.
• Develop architectural requirements for fault detection, telemetry, and recovery.
• Collaborate with design, verification, validation, firmware, software, and platform teams.
• Plan verification strategies for RAS mechanisms and cross‑functional architecture reviews.
• Assist in failure analysis and silicon debug for lab, post‑silicon, production, and field findings.
• Apply RAS principles to space‑ and radiation‑aware use cases.

Skills

RAS architecture

SoC architecture

RTL design understanding

Fault injection

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

SystemC

C/C++

Python

Job description

NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Hardware Architect to define and drive RAS‑focused SoC hardware architecture for Tegra. You will own end‑to‑end RAS features from concept to silicon validation, collaborating with design, verification, firmware, software, and platform teams to ensure observable, debuggable, and recoverable systems at scale.

The role emphasizes space and radiation awareness, fault containment, telemetry, and diagnostic observability.