CareerPlan

Senior Memory System Architect

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$152k–$242k2026-08-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Designing and optimizing memory system architecture and micro-architecture for NVIDIA's System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions used in deep-learning, autonomous vehicles, robotics, mobile, server, and gaming systems.

Role type

Senior IC memory system architect

Builds

High-performance SoCs with advanced memory subsystems

Domain

Semiconductor / Computer Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Memory subsystem design, cache and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation, performance modeling, simulation, C++, Python, Verilog, UVM

Preferred skills

Performance verification, debugging complex performance issues

Technologies

C++, Python, Perl, Verilog, SV, UVM

Responsibilities

Drive development of architecture and micro-architecture to optimize performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, and schedule; Perform performance modeling and simulation of features; Implement and maintain detailed and high-level performance models; Analyze benchmarks and workloads to identify micro-architectural tradeoffs; Debug performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC