NVIDIA
Senior Architect, SOC Modeling
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related relevant field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Models, analyzes, and validates SoC and system architectures and features to improve performance and efficiency across datacenter, automotive, and client products.
What you'll do
- Build SoC platforms that enable software teams to shift work earlier in project milestones.
- Guide modeling teams in delivering functional models for SoC and GPU use cases, coordinating across NVIDIA teams and overseas groups.
- Develop tests, test plans, testing infrastructure, and code-coverage analysis and reporting for new architectures and features.
What they ask for
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related relevant field (or equivalent experience).
- Strong programming ability in C++ and C, with understanding of build systems, toolchains, and libraries.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a distributed team environment.
Nice to have
- Computer Architecture background with experience in modeling with SystemC & TLM.
- Familiarity with Docker, Jenkins, Python, and Perl.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary) for Level 3; 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary) for Level 4
Tools
C++, C, CMAKE, make, GCC, MSVC, STL, BOOST
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