NVIDIA
Senior Memory System Architect
$152K–$288K
US, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 2, 2026
- Location
- US, CA, Santa Clara
US, TX, Austin
US, NC, Durham - Experience
- 3+ years in SoC or memory system architecture and performance.
- Education
- M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develops memory-system architecture and microarchitecture for NVIDIA SoCs, modeling and analyzing performance and debugging issues.
What you'll do
- Drive architecture and microarchitecture development to improve memory-system performance, power efficiency, complexity, area, effort, and schedule.
- Build, maintain, and use performance models and simulations to evaluate features and analyze workload tradeoffs.
- Debug performance and functional issues using high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.
What they ask for
- 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, including caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, and address translation.
- Software development experience with C++, python and/or perl.
Nice to have
- Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification.
- Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues.
Pay
152,000 USD - 241,500 USD (base salary); 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, python, perl, Verilog, SV/UVM, RTL
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