# Senior System Architect - LPU Platform Pathfinding

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Senior System Architect to lead rack-level and platform pathfinding for our next-generation GPU and LPU systems. In this role, you will help shape how our accelerators integrate at rack and system level, working with mechanical, electrical, SI/PI, networking, and data center teams to deliver high-performance, reliable AI platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading pathfinding for system and rack architecture for new GPU/LPU platforms, building on existing NVIDIA architectures and improving them where it matters most.

- Tailoring system-level solutions to improve performance, efficiency, and scalability for LPU-based systems and workloads.

- Defining rack, node, and subsystem requirements across power, cooling, mechanics, SI/PI budgets, connectivity, management, and reliability.

- Collaborating with mechanical, electrical, SI/PI, networking, firmware, and data center operations teams to converge on practical architectures and execution plans.

- Driving SI/PI, power, and thermal feasibility through focused modeling, simulation, and experiments, then feeding results back into designs.

- De-risking new architectures with targeted prototypes and experiments, and documenting clear specs, interfaces, and guidelines so teams can move fast.

As a Senior System Architect, you will be responsible for leading cross-functional decisions, explaining trade-offs clearly, and delivering architectures under ambiguity and tight schedules. You will also be expected to mentor engineers, scale processes and tools for rack architecture, and contribute to standards, publications, or patents in server or rack design, SI/PI, power delivery, or thermal and mechanical design.

If you have a strong background in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, and 8+ years of experience in server, storage, networking, or rack-level hardware, including several years in system or platform architecture and pathfinding, we encourage you to apply.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Server Hardware
- Storage Hardware
- Networking Hardware
- Rack-Level Hardware
- System Architecture
- Platform Pathfinding
- SI/PI
- Power Delivery
- Thermal Management

### Nice to have
- GPU Design
- Accelerator Design
- High-Power AI Systems
- Multi-GPU/LPU Nodes
- Dense Rack Solutions
- Rack-Level Networking Architectures
- Leaf/Spine Fabrics
- TOR Strategies
- Structured Cabling

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