Principal SoC Architect - Hardware

What You’ll Be Doing

• Hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle ownership
• Drive Architecture/Software/Hardware co-design and collaboration on features set
• Perform performance, perf @ watt, perf / sq. mm modeling or analysis and track through design (where applicable)
• Architecture and requirements specification authoring, review, and System C model development (where applicable)
• Architectural validation plan and execution
• Review downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are followed
• Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation
• Industry standards tracking & 3rd party IP technical evaluation
• Patenting novel parts of system architecture

What We Need To See

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• 15+ years of architecture, design and/or verification experience
• Meaningful industry expertise in SoC architecture definition - Clocks, Resets, Automotive safety, Interconnects, Memory Controller, Boot, Virtualization, Power Management, Security, System Performance, IO technologies, (PCIE, Camera Interfaces, etc), Multimedia accelerator pipelines, CPU/GPU coherency, Platform integration
• Comfortable communicating and solving issues at all levels of architecture definition from micro-architecture to system level to software architecture
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Automotive Functional Safety expertise, working experience with ISO26262 standard
• System C or C++ development skills, or relevant programming experience
• Inventions in one or more domains relevant to SoC architecture

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative, autonomous and love a challenge, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until March 9, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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