Senior Memory System Architect

About the role

NVIDIA is searching for experienced candidates with a track record of architecture development to join our memory system architecture team. This team drives memory system architecture in NVIDIA’s world-changing SOCs for deep-learning, autonomous vehicles and robotics, mobile systems, server systems, and gaming. NVIDIA has some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in memory systems, optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
• Performance modeling and simulation of features to improve memory system performance and efficiency.
• Implement and maintain detailed and high-level performance models.
• Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify tradeoffs in areas of micro-architectural optimizations.
• Debug performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance.
• Deep understanding of memory subsystems – caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product-oriented, distributed team.
• Exposure/coursework related to digital systems and VLSI design, computer architecture, C/C++ programming languages.
• Software development experience with C++, Python, and/or Perl. Verilog or SV/UVM are a plus.

Skills

• Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification.
• Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues.

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 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

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