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NVIDIA

Senior GPU Memory System Architect

NVIDIA
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onsite senior full-time Santa Clara

First indexed 18 May 2026

Description

We are 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 role involves developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system, Memory management, Virtualization & security optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system, Memory management, Virtualization & security optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
  • Participating in performance simulation of features to improve translation efficiency to access memory and io using protocol like PCIe.
  • 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 consider software interfaces to the GPU.
  • Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, silicon & systems.

Requirements include:

  • 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.
  • 3+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in the area interconnects, QoS. Memory hierarchy, Memory model & ordering, multifunction HW accelerator, software, virtualization, and security.
  • 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 include:

  • Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, accelerator IPs, memory subsystem hierarchy.
  • Practical experience with multi-core systems, coherent interconnects & Industry IO protocol like PCIe/CXL, encryption, compression, confidential compute, or virtualization & security.
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