# Senior Applied Power Architect – GPU

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Applied Power Architect – GPU to join the Applied Power Architecture team. You will develop state-of-the-art GPUs to power AI, Automotive, GeForce, and Mobile products.

**Job Summary:** You will be responsible for inventing methodologies, features, and techniques to address electrical/speed/power challenges for NVIDIA's next-generation AI architectures, such as Rubin and Feynman.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Drive power management initiatives to optimize power efficiency and performance, addressing electrical/thermal and power constraints.

- Understand process characteristics and their impact on V-F, analyzing various V-F tradeoffs considering Vt choices on power/other metrics and overall performance.

- Investigate multi-die technologies and develop innovative solutions to address packaging, interconnect, physical design, electrical, and thermal challenges.

- Analyze peak current, Di/Dt, IR, and EM requirements, collaborating with ASIC designers, Power Integrity, Packaging experts, and Product engineers to understand challenges and formulate solutions.

**Requirements:**

- MSEE/MSCE, preferably PhD, or equivalent experience with a specialization in low-power-processor architectures.

- Solid understanding of energy-efficient system design fundamentals, performance/power modeling, and related tradeoffs from 6+ years of relevant industry experience.

- Background in PDN design and good understanding of electrical issues such as Di/Dt, undershoot/overshoot, IR, EM, peak current, analysis/mitigation techniques.

- Exposure and working knowledge of Python and data analysis packages like Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch.

- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability and desire to work as a great teammate.

**Benefits:**

- Base salary range: 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5.

- Equity and benefits package.

## Skills

### Required
- low-power-processor architectures
- energy-efficient system design
- PDN design
- Python
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- PhD in relevant field
- exposure to lab setup including power measurement equipment

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