Senior GPU Memory Architect

NVIDIA

Senior GPU Memory Architect developing innovative GPU architectures for NVIDIA's solutions in autonomous vehicles, AI, and gaming. Involves performance optimization and memory management tasks.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeSanta Clara • California, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $356,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system and memory management
Participating in performance simulation of features to improve memory access efficiency
Implementing and maintaining high-level functional and performance models
Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads and performance simulation results to identify areas for microarchitecture optimizations
Defining and performing experiments to study the machine in action, presenting experiment results to the larger group and proposing mechanisms for improvement
Creating architectural specifications and customer-facing documents
Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
A PhD with a focus in computer architecture is a plus
6+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development specifically in the area of memory caching and interconnects
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
History of successfully mentoring junior engineers and interns is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salaries
Generous benefits package
Equity

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Hard Skills & Tools

GPU architectureCPU architecturememory managementperformance simulationmicroarchitecture optimizationhigh-level functional modelsRTL simulationbenchmark analysismemory cachinginterconnects

Soft Skills

communication skillsinterpersonal skillsmentoringpresentation skills

Certifications

Master's degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer EngineeringPhD in computer architecture