NVIDIA
Senior GPU Memory Architect
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 22, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, NC, Durham - Experience
- 6+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU Architecture and development, specifically in memory caching and interconnects.
- Education
- Master degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
About the job
Develop GPU memory architecture and microarchitecture, improving memory-system performance, efficiency, area, complexity, and power from specification through implementation.
What you'll do
- Design GPU memory architecture and microarchitecture; simulate features and maintain high-level functional and performance models.
- Analyze benchmarks, workloads, and simulation results; run experiments and propose optimizations.
- Write architectural specifications and customer-facing documents, collaborate with industry partners, and debug performance and functional issues.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of meaningful work experience in GPU or CPU architecture and development, specifically memory caching and interconnects.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to work in a dynamic, product-oriented, distributed team.
Nice to have
- PhD focused on computer architecture; mentoring junior engineers and interns.
- Experience with hardware memory management unit, prefetching, or memory subsystems; practical experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
GPU, CPU, RTL
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