Senior GPU Architect

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Senior GPU Architect role at NVIDIA focusing on developing and improving GPU architecture, chip design infrastructure, and validation tools. Requires extensive experience in GPU/CPU System Architecture, C++, Python, and computer architecture modeling. The role involves collaboration across multiple teams to optimize performance, yield, and scalability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop GPU architecture innovations and improvements, optimizing along the axes of scalability/modularity, performance, area, yield, effort, and schedule.
  2. Develop and enhance chip design infrastructure, including functional models and yield simulators, testbench components and analysis tools, to evaluate configurations under different constraints.
  3. Develop tests, test plans and testing infrastructure for new architectures/ features
  4. Work in a matrixed environment, across the different modeling teams, to document, design, develop tools to optimize chip yield and performance
  5. Implement and maintain functional, performance, and yield models

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors/Master’s/PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related fields (or equivalent experience)
  • A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in GPU or CPU System Architecture development
  • Proficient programming skills in C++ and Python.
  • Solid background in Computer Architecture with experience in modeling
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Nice to have

  • Experience with GPU architecture and/or Network-on-Chip (NoC)/Interconnect.
  • Knowledgeable in system level functions such as reset and boot, DFT.
  • Consistent track record of efficiently implementing complex architectural features
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills with a focus on optimizing performance, area, complexity, and power.

What the JD emphasized

  • A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in GPU or CPU System Architecture development
  • Proficient programming skills in C++ and Python.
  • Solid background in Computer Architecture with experience in modeling
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, distributed team.
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with a track record of driving issues to closure
  • Consistent track record of efficiently implementing complex architectural features
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills with a focus on optimizing performance, area, complexity, and power.