Senior GPU Memory Architect

Nvidia

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CAAustin, TXDurham, NC
Salary
$184,000–$287,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
135 days ago
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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Senior GPU Memory Architect

As a Senior GPU Memory Architect, you will join the GPU memory architecture team to solve complex problems while optimizing performance, area, complexity, and power on leading-edge silicon processes. You will develop architecture and micro-architecture for state-of-the-art GPU memory systems and management, perform performance simulations of features, and maintain high-level functional and performance models. Your daily work involves analyzing benchmarks and application workloads to identify microarchitecture optimizations, creating architectural specifications, and collaborating with industry partners on software interfaces. You will debug issues using RTL simulation and silicon while designing for products in autonomous vehicles, AI, gaming, and mobile systems. The role requires expertise in memory caching, interconnects, multi-core systems, memory coherency, and hardware memory management units. Candidates should possess a master's degree or PhD in related fields and experience in GPU or CPU architecture development.

What you'll do

  • Develop GPU memory system and management micro-architecture to optimize performance, power efficiency, area, and complexity.
  • Perform performance simulations of features to improve memory access efficiency.
  • Implement and maintain high-level functional and performance models for the architecture.
  • Analyze benchmarks and application workloads to identify specific areas for microarchitecture optimizations.
  • Design and conduct experiments to study machine behavior and propose mechanisms for improvement.
  • Create architectural specifications and customer-facing documentation for new products.
  • Collaborate with industry partners to define specifications that incorporate software interfaces to the GPU.
  • Debug performance and functional issues using high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • A PhD with a focus in computer architecture (preferred).
  • 6+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in memory caching and interconnects.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work in a dynamic, product-oriented, distributed team.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers and interns (preferred).
  • Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, or memory subsystems (preferred).
  • Practical experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency (preferred).

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