NVIDIA
Senior Silicon Product Architect, Performance and Power
US, CA, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years.
- Education
- MS or PhD in EE, CE, CS, systems engineering, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines technical strategy and architecture for next-generation silicon products by aligning customer workloads with performance, power, and system-level goals.
What you'll do
- Translate customer needs and workloads into product goals, priorities, and tradeoffs.
- Architect performance and power features; define product operating points, configurations, and binning strategies with engineering teams.
- Benchmark competing architectures, validate models against silicon data, and mentor engineers through technical reviews.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in silicon or system performance and power, with ownership of product architecture or technical strategy.
- Deep silicon performance and power expertise, including device behavior, voltage-frequency characteristics, process variation, power management, and electrical and thermal limits.
- Broad CPU, GPU, or SoC architecture knowledge, including memory, interconnects, and hardware/software co-design.
- Experience with first-principles modeling, workload analysis, competitive benchmarking, statistics, and data analysis.
Nice to have
- Understanding of LLM architectures and training or inference workloads.
- Experience with rack or datacenter performance and power, or across client, embedded, automotive, and networking products.
Tools
CPU, GPU, SoC, LLM
AI focus
The role may involve understanding LLM architectures and training or inference workloads. NVIDIA also states that it uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.
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