Principal SoC Architect - Hardware

We are looking for a Principal Hardware SoC Architect to join our Tegra team and help define the next generation of SoCs at the forefront of accelerating machine learning, automotive, and high-performance computing applications.

About the role

In this position, you will define future aspects of our architectures that integrate NVIDIA GPUs, custom processors, and accelerators into a single chip. Your role will be cross-disciplinary, collaborating with software, ASIC design, verification, physical design, VLSI, and platform teams. Our SoC architects excel at pushing the state of the art while making optimal engineering trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle
• Drive Architecture/Software/Hardware co-design and collaboration on feature sets
• Perform performance, performance-per-watt, and performance-per-square-millimeter modeling or analysis and track through design (where applicable)
• Author, review, and develop architecture and requirements specifications, including System C models (where applicable)
• Develop and execute architectural validation plans
• Review downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software, and/or platform to ensure requirements are followed
• Provide post-silicon production support, including silicon debug and customer documentation
• Track industry standards and evaluate third-party IP
• Patent novel parts of system architecture

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, 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, including:
  • 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
• Ability to communicate and solve issues at all levels of architecture definition, from micro-architecture to system level to software architecture
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to work as part of a team

Skills

• Automotive Functional Safety expertise, including working experience with the ISO 26262 standard
• System C or C++ development skills, or relevant programming experience
• Inventions in one or more domains relevant to SoC architecture

Pay

Base salary range: $272,000 – $431,250 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.