Senior GPU Memory Architect
About the role
NVIDIA is seeking a Senior GPU Memory Architect to join a team that develops innovative products for autonomous vehicles, AI, gaming, and mobile systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in computer architecture, particularly in GPU or CPU memory caching and interconnects.
Responsibilities
- Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve GPU memory system and memory management
- Optimizing performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule
- Participating in performance simulation of features to improve memory access efficiency
- Implementing and maintaining high-level functional and performance models
- Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify areas for microarchitecture optimizations
- Creating architectural specifications and customer-facing documents
- Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon
- Working with partners in the industry to generate specifications that consider software interfaces to the GPU
Requirements
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- A PhD with a focus in computer architecture is a plus
- 6+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in the area of memory caching and interconnects
Qualifications
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, product-oriented, distributed team
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and interns
Skills
- Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, or memory subsystems
- Practical experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency
Benefits
Competitive salaries, a generous benefits package, and the opportunity to work on groundbreaking GPU architectures from specification through implementation to extend the state of the art in GPU performance and functionality. NVIDIA is widely considered one of the technology world's most desirable employers.
Pay
The base salary range for this position is $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4, and $224,000 - $356,500 for Level 5. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Schedule
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 26, 2026.