Senior Silicon Product Architect, Performance and Power

Nvidia

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$196,000–$310,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 Silicon Product Architect, Performance and Power

The Senior Silicon Product Architect, Performance and Power joins the Silicon CoDesign team to define technical strategies for next-generation products. This role involves connecting silicon capabilities with customer workloads to develop innovative features and system-level solutions. You will own the Product Soul by translating customer needs into specific performance, power, and efficiency goals while managing tradeoffs. Key responsibilities include architecting power management features, benchmarking competing architectures, and defining operating points, configurations, and binning strategies. You must possess deep expertise in device behavior, voltage-frequency characteristics, process variation, and thermal limits. Required skills include first-principles modeling, workload analysis, and statistics. The role addresses technical challenges in CPU, GPU, or SoC architecture, including memory and interconnects, specifically focusing on performance and power co-design from concept through shipping.

What you'll do

  • Translate customer needs and workloads into specific performance, power, and efficiency goals.
  • Architect next-generation performance and power management features from concept through production.
  • Benchmark competing architectures to prioritize investments that improve product differentiation and value.
  • Define operating points, configurations, and binning strategies in coordination with engineering teams.
  • Validate architectural models against silicon data to identify and mitigate technical risks early.
  • Lead technical reviews and mentor engineers on data analysis and technical reasoning.
  • Develop innovative system-level solutions by connecting silicon capabilities with customer workloads.

What we're looking for

  • MS or PhD in EE, CE, CS, systems engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years in silicon or system performance and power with ownership of product architecture or technical strategy.
  • Deep expertise in silicon performance and power, including device behavior, voltage-frequency characteristics, and thermal limits.
  • Broad knowledge of CPU, GPU, or SoC architecture, including memory, interconnects, and hardware/software co-design.
  • Experience with first-principles modeling, workload analysis, competitive benchmarking, statistics, and data analysis.
  • Strong technical writing, presentation, and mentoring skills with experience influencing global and offshore teams.
  • Understanding of LLM architectures and training or inference workloads (preferred).
  • Experience with rack or datacenter performance and power, or across client, embedded, automotive, and networking products (preferred).

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