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Senior GPU Memory Architect

NVIDIA Santa Clara On-site senior full-time

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Description

We are now looking for a Senior GPU Memory Architect.

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.

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.

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.
  • 6+ 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. Your history of successfully mentoring junior engineers and interns is a huge plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

If you desire to be a part of a team of talented engineers developing ground-breaking GPU architectures from specification through implementation to extend the state of the art in GPU performance and functionality, we encourage you to apply. With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers.

Skills

Required

  • GPU Memory Architecture
  • Computer Architecture
  • Memory Caching
  • Interconnects
  • Hardware Memory Management Unit
  • Prefetching
  • Memory Subsystems
  • Multi-Core Systems
  • Memory Coherency

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