Senior Memory System Architect

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Memory System Architect in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $152k-$242k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on NVIDIA.

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NVIDIA is searching for experienced candidates with a track record of architecture development to join our memory system architecture team! This team drives memory system architecture in NVIDIA’s world changing SOCs for deep-learning, autonomous vehicles and robotics, mobile systems, server systems, and gaming. NVIDIA has some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Are you a creative and autonomous engineer? If so, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Be Doing:

Driving development of architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in memory systems optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
Performance modeling and simulation of features to improve memory system performance and efficiency.
Implementing and maintaining detailed and high-level performance models.
Analyzing benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify tradeoffs in areas of micro-architectural optimizations.
Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

What we need to see:

M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience
3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance
Deep understanding of memory subsystems – caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation
Strong communication and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product oriented, distributed team.
Exposure/coursework related to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, C/C++ programming languages.
Software development experience with C++, python and/or perl. Verilog or SV/UVM are a plus.

Ways To Stand Out from the Crowd

Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification.
Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are:
152,000 USD – 241,500 USD for Level 3; and 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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How we rate this

Senior Memory System Architect at NVIDIA rates 19 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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