Senior GPU Memory Architect

Nvidia • Santa Clara, CA

320d • $224,000 - $425,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated architect to work with a team in solving complex problems while optimizing performance, area, complexity, and power on leading-edge silicon processes. This GPU memory architecture team creates new, innovative products tailored to NVIDIA's world-changing solutions for autonomous vehicles, AI, gaming, mobile systems.

Requirements

• Master degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• A PhD with a focus in computer architecture is a plus.
• 12+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in the area of memory caching and interconnects.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product oriented, distributed team.
• History of successfully mentoring junior engineers and interns is a huge plus.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, or memory subsystems.
• Practical experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency.

Responsibilities

• Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system and memory management optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
• Participating in performance simulation of features to improve memory access efficiency.
• Implementing and maintaining high-level functional and performance models.
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads and performance simulation results to identify areas for microarchitecture optimizations.
• Defining and performing experiments to study the machine in action, presenting experiment results to the larger group and proposing mechanisms for improvement.
• Creating architectural specifications and customer-facing documents.
• Working with partners in the industry to generate specifications which take into account software interfaces to the GPU.
• Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Generous benefits package
• Equity eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Master's degree