NVIDIA
Senior Memory System Engineer
$184K–$356K
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years of proven track record in DRAM design, module design, or memory subsystem design.
- Education
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering (CE), or a related field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Designs and architects memory subsystems and technologies for NVIDIA SoCs, evaluating performance, power, functionality, and reliability while supporting integration, validation, and supplier collaboration.
What you'll do
- Analyze future DDR/LPDDR/HBM technologies for next-generation SoCs and systems.
- Collaborate with architecture, design, software, firmware, and memory partners to define memory requirements and layouts.
- Bring up and validate memory technologies and debug failures.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10 years of proven experience in DRAM design, module design, or memory subsystem design.
- Strong knowledge of memory design, ECC algorithms, SI and PI, and DDR, LPDDR, and HBM.
- Experience in memory design, bring-up, and validation, plus Python and C/C++ development and workload analysis.
Pay
184,000 USD - 287,500 USD base salary (Level 4); 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD base salary (Level 5)
Tools
DDR, LPDDR, HBM, Python, C/C++
AI focus
NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes; the role does not state that it involves AI work.
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