Senior SoC RAS Architect for High-Rel AI & Space

NVIDIA; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Architect to define and drive RAM/SoC-level RAS features across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, and platform components. The role spans from concept through RTL implementation, verification, validation, and production readiness, with a focus on reliability, observability, and debuggability in high-reliability applications.

Collaborate with design, firmware, software, validation, and platform teams to ensure RAS features meet system requirements, including

Qualifications

• MS or PhD 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 RAS in the SoC context, including fault detection, correction, containment, telemetry, recovery, and serviceability.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SoC-level RAS hardware architecture across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, IOs, safety islands, firmware interfaces, and platform components.
• Own RAS features from concept through architecture spec, micro-architecture alignment, RTL implementation support, design verification, silicon validation, debug, and production readiness.
• Develop architectural requirements for fault detection, correction, containment, telemetry, error reporting, recovery, and observability.
• Collaborate with design, verification, validation, firmware, software, and platform teams to ensure RAS features are implementable, verifiable, and aligned with system requirements.
• Create hardware specifications, architectural requirements, error-handling flows, and architectural models in SystemC, C/C++, Python.

Skills

RAS architecture

SoC design

SystemC modeling

RTL verification

Fault injection

Telemetry observability

Radiation effects

Debug and production readiness

Cross-functional teamwork

C/C++

Education

MS or PhD in computer or electrical engineering

Tools

SystemC

C/C++

Python

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Hardware Architect to define and drive RAM/SoC-level RAS features across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, and platform components. The role spans from concept through RTL implementation, verification, validation, and production readiness, with a focus on reliability, observability, and debuggability in high-reliability applications.

Collaborate with design, firmware, software, validation, and platform teams to ensure RAS features meet system requirements, including