# Senior Memory System Architect

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- SoC architecture
- memory system architecture
- performance modeling
- C++
- Python
- Perl
- Verilog
- SV/UVM
- Digital systems
- VLSI design
- Computer Architecture

### Nice to have
- performance verification
- debugging complex performance issues

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