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.

Responsibilities

• Driving 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.
• Implementing and maintaining detailed and high-level performance models.
• Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify tradeoffs in areas of micro-architectural optimizations.
• Debugging 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

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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

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 - $241,500 for Level 3, and $184,000 - $287,500 for Level 4.

Schedule

• This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Ways to stand out

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.