Senior Applied Power Architect – GPU

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.