Director, Server CPU Product Architecture

About the role

Agentic AI is revolutionizing CPUs, and NVIDIA is redesigning the data center to keep up. The Director/Senior Director, Server CPU Product Architecture will lead the definition of NVIDIA's next‑generation server CPUs, driving product architecture from concept through launch and ensuring every CPU decision serves the AI factory as a whole.

Responsibilities

• Drive the product architecture of NVIDIA's server CPUs from first concept through launch.
• Collaborate with system architecture, platform architecture, and product management to define CPU requirements.
• Make architectural trade‑offs that determine performance across the entire data center.
• Engage directly with customers and partners, bringing market needs, use cases, and ROI analyses back into engineering.
• Coordinate across architecture, platform, networking, software, and silicon engineering teams.
• Lead a team of senior architects and represent the roadmap to customers and NVIDIA’s senior technical and executive leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in server or data‑center CPU/SoC architecture, with multiple product generations shipped.
• 7+ years of experience managing a team to deliver NVIDIA CPU product strategy.
• Proven track record of partnering across architecture, engineering, and product organizations and building high‑performing teams.
• Experience owning products through the full lifecycle, including customer engagement, ROI ownership, and value proposition development.
• Ability to monitor industry and technology trends, competitive dynamics, and anticipate market direction.
• Experience co‑designing silicon requirements directly with hyperscalers or large AI labs.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience spanning both x86 and Arm‑based server CPU architectures.
• Background in accelerated computing or AI infrastructure, beyond traditional server CPUs.

Compensation

The base salary is determined by location, experience, and comparable employee pay. The base salary range is $288,000 – $437,000 for Level 5 and $352,000 – $529,000 for Level 6. The role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries.
• A comprehensive benefits package.
• Inclusive work environment with a strong commitment to diversity and equal opportunity.