CareerPlan

Senior GPU Memory Architect

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k2026-05-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Designing and optimizing GPU memory systems, micro-architecture, and management to maximize performance, power efficiency, area, and complexity for NVIDIA's AI, gaming, and autonomous vehicle solutions.

Role type

Senior IC GPU Memory Architect

Builds

High-performance GPU memory subsystems and management units

Domain

Semiconductor / Computer Architecture / GPU

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

GPU/CPU architecture, memory caching, interconnects, performance simulation, RTL simulation, silicon debugging, hardware memory management unit design, multi-core systems, memory coherency

Preferred skills

PhD in computer architecture, mentoring junior engineers, hardware prefetching design

Technologies

RTL simulation, silicon, high-level functional models

Responsibilities

Develop architecture and micro-architecture for GPU memory systems; Participate in performance simulation to improve memory access efficiency; Implement and maintain high-level functional and performance models; Analyze benchmarks and workloads to identify optimization areas; Define and perform experiments to study machine behavior; Create architectural specifications and customer-facing documents; Debug performance and functional issues across models, simulation, and silicon.