CareerPlan

Senior Architect - Data Processing Systems, Analytics and Data Intelligence

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10

Core

Define and improve hardware and software architectures for diverse data processing workloads, delivering outstanding performance at scale using NVIDIA's accelerated data processing platform.

Role type

Senior Architect (Data Processing Systems, Analytics, and Data Intelligence)

Builds

Hardware-software co-designed data processing platforms combining CPUs, GPUs, and high-bandwidth networking

Domain

Accelerated computing, data processing systems, and high-performance infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed data platforms, databases, systems engineering, performance architecture, accelerated computing, HW/SW co-design, CUDA, GPU-accelerated data processing, structured data engines, vector databases, mathematical optimization solvers, network/storage architecture

Preferred skills

System-level trade-off evaluation, silicon architecture collaboration, constraint-based frameworks, benchmarking frameworks

Technologies

CUDA, cuDF, RAPIDS, cuVS, CUDA kernels, high-bandwidth networking, compression, IO

Responsibilities

Co-design future architectures targeting performance, efficiency, and cost; Engage with end users and partners to incorporate customer insights into roadmaps; Drive full-stack performance optimization from kernels to system-level IO; Collaborate with architects to shape hardware features via workload analysis; Partner to build optimization solvers for design trade-offs; Develop benchmarking frameworks; Analyze production workloads to identify optimization opportunities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC