Senior Memory System Architect

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Memory System Architect to join their memory system architecture team.

The successful candidate will drive the development of architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in memory systems, optimizing performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing architecture and micro-architecture for memory systems
• Performance modeling and simulation of features to improve memory system performance and efficiency
• Implementing and maintaining detailed and high-level performance models
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify tradeoffs in areas of micro-architectural optimizations
• Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon

Requirements:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance
• Deep understanding of memory subsystems – caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product-oriented, distributed team
• Exposure/coursework related to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, C/C++ programming languages
• Software development experience with C++, Python, and/or Perl; Verilog or SV/UVM are a plus

Preferred qualifications:

• Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification
• Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues

The position offers equity and benefits.