NVIDIA
Senior GPU System Architect
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years or more of relevant experience in system design and/or ASIC/SoC architecture for GPU, CPU, or networking products.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architects multi-GPU systems and interconnects for next-generation AI and HPC datacenter platforms, balancing performance, scalability, and resilience.
What you'll do
- Design multi-GPU scale-up and scale-out topologies and evaluate high-speed interconnect architectures.
- Model and simulate systems, analyze bottlenecks, and guide hardware-software design trade-offs.
- Collaborate across GPU, software, networking, packaging, board, and silicon teams on rack-scale system design.
What they ask for
- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years or more of relevant system design and/or ASIC/SoC architecture experience for GPU, CPU, or networking products.
- Understanding of interconnect protocols such as NVLink, Ethernet, InfiniBand, CXL, and PCIe; experience with RDMA/RoCE or InfiniBand transport offload architectures.
- Experience architecting multi-GPU/multi-CPU topologies and with hardware-software interaction, performance tuning, and system modeling (Python, SystemC, or similar).
Nice to have
- Background in system design for AI and HPC.
- Experience with NIC/DPU architecture, chiplet interconnects, multi-node fabrics, or interposer and 2.5D/3D package co-design.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary, Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD (base salary, Level 5)
Tools
NVLink, Ethernet, InfiniBand, CXL, PCIe, RDMA/RoCE, Python, SystemC
AI focus
Architects GPU systems for AI workloads and datacenter platforms; NVIDIA also states it uses AI tools in recruiting processes.
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