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Senior GPU Memory Architect

Senior GPU Memory Architect

CompanyNVIDIA
LocationSanta Clara, CA, USA
Salary$224000 – $425500
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s
Experience LevelExpert or higher

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 12+ 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 are required along with the ability to work in a dynamic, product oriented, distributed team.
  • Your history of successfully mentoring junior engineers and interns is a huge plus.

Responsibilities

  • Developing architecture and micro-architecture to improve the state-of-the-art in GPU memory system and memory management optimizing along the axes of performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
  • 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. Working with partners in the industry to generate specifications which take into account software interfaces to the GPU.
  • Debugging performance and functional issues with high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, or memory subsystems.
  • Practical experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency.