# Principal CPU Power Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Do you want to help drive the development of CPU technology for architectures used for artificial intelligence (AI), agentic workloads, deep learning (DL), high-performance computing (HPC), cloud service providers (CSP), gaming, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles?

Come join the CPU architecture team and help us push the boundaries for all our CPU products!

### Responsibilities

- Bridge the gap between architecture, RTL implementation, and physical design.

- Serve as subject matter expert on power delivery/regulators, power gating, di/dt, and thermal throttling.

- Analyze power trade-offs for different die stacking and packaging proposals.

- Propose and drive improvements related to power and power methodology for our custom CPU cores.

### Requirements

- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- 15 or more years of relevant experience.

- Extensive background in CPU architecture.

- Solid understanding of power consumption, and power efficiency concepts.

- Experience of RTL development.

- Detailed understanding of process technologies and circuit design.

- Well versed in low power techniques that span the entire stack from SW, Architecture, RTL, VLSI, and process.

### Ways to Stand Out

- PhD or research experience.

- Advanced knowledge in the area of physical design.

- Knowledge of GPU and SOC design.

- Experience of advanced packaging technologies.

- Strong communication skills.

NVIDIA is expanding into the CPU server market, complementing our world-class GPUs and SoCs. These CPUs play a critical role in orchestrating complex workloads with exceptional performance-per-watt efficiency.

## Skills

### Required
- CPU architecture
- RTL development
- Power delivery
- Power gating
- Di/dt
- Thermal throttling
- Die stacking
- Packaging proposals
- Low power techniques
- Process technologies
- Circuit design

### Nice to have
- GPU design
- SOC design
- Advanced packaging technologies
- Strong communication skills

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