AI Hardware Architect

About the role

We are seeking an AI Hardware Architect to join our team. This role involves working on groundbreaking GPU and CPU systems, understanding them across various disciplines, identifying areas for improvement, studying applications and models running on Nvidia hardware, and developing microarchitectural solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Work on groundbreaking GPU and CPU systems
• Understand them across a range of disciplines and identify areas for improvement
• Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications
• Come up with microarchitectural solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, memory management and other SOC level issues
• Understand and help drive implementation of bus protocols, networking protocols, memory access and security solutions across a range of products
• Work with software, firmware, platform and multi-functional teams on system architecture
• Model, analyze, and explain the performance and power advantages of Nvidia solutions
• Guide customers and firmware engineers to extract the most performance from microarchitectural structures

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience building high performance microarchitectural structures
• Experience with industry standard bus protocols
• A clear understanding of the performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features
• Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills
• A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth
• Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills
• A good understanding of LLMs

Qualifications

• Publishations or other evidence of original chip/system architecture work is a plus

Benefits

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Schedule

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 17, 2026.

Pay

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD.

Skills

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience), 8+ years of relevant industry experience, experience building high performance microarchitectural structures, experience with industry standard bus protocols, clear understanding of the performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features, strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills, a drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth, excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills, a good understanding of LLMs.

Benefits

You will be eligible for equity and benefits.