Senior E2E Hardware Architect

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior E2E Hardware Architect to join its Networking Architecture team in Israel.

This role involves leading end-to-end architectural explorations, identifying opportunities for innovation, and introducing new networking features and technologies into future NVIDIA platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture explorations across host, NIC, and switch hardware to define innovative networking technologies and capabilities.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks, technology gaps, and optimization opportunities across networking systems.
• Define and drive new hardware features and architectural improvements for next-generation NVIDIA networking platforms.
• Explore architectural alternatives and evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, resiliency, efficiency, scalability, complexity, and hardware resources.
• Translate system-level requirements and emerging workloads into concrete hardware architecture proposals and feature definitions.
• Drive architectural initiatives from early research and proof of concept through feasibility analysis, specification, and handoff to product architecture and development teams.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, and performance modeling teams to evaluate and validate architectural concepts.
• Examine networking issues in extensive data centers and accelerated computing settings.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of industry experience in hardware architecture, microarchitecture, or system architecture.
• Proven hardware architecture experience in at least one of the following: NICs or DPUs, high-performance Ethernet switches or networking ASICs, host architecture, CPU/SoC subsystems, or high-speed I/O and interconnect architecture.
• Strong understanding of hardware architecture principles, performance optimization, and architectural tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical problems, explore alternative solutions, and define innovative architectural approaches.
• Strong system-level thinking and the ability to understand interactions between hardware components and software.
• Experience driving architectural features or technical initiatives across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Ethernet networking, RDMA/RoCE, InfiniBand, or advanced networking protocols.
• Experience with large-scale data center networks, high-performance computing, or distributed systems.
• Experience with end-to-end performance analysis, architecture modeling, or simulation.
• Understanding of congestion control, flow control, packet processing, or network transport mechanisms.
• Experience defining new hardware capabilities across multiple components or platforms.