Principal Switch Engineering Architect

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

$272,000-419,800 per year

SENIOR
✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Algorithms @ 4 Networking @ 4

Details

NVIDIA networking unit is a world-leader fast-growing company which supports the most powerful supercomputers in the world. We make outstanding artificial intelligence happen and accelerate Open-AI’s Chat-GPT, for example. We believe in our people and products and seek excellent people to join us!

We're looking for a hardware architect for our switch division. In this position, as part of a small (~10 employees) elite team, you will have the chance to define the architecture of NVIDIA’s next generation switch product lines, both Ethernet and InfiniBand. Your role will be cross-disciplinary, working with software, ASIC design, verification, physical design, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Learn and understand the switch architecture thoroughly across all aspects, and eventually turn into a source of information for design and verification engineers in the team.
  • Define the implementation of the most sophisticated features and algorithms of our next products, balancing architecture requirements with backend, execution, and design considerations.
  • Understand our system requirement and help define the POR of our switch product line.
  • Face the most challenging Full-Chip correctness and performance issues, which cannot be handled by the unit’s designers as they require full cross-unit understanding of the chip.
  • Work closely with board and package design to understand the different design limitations: power, di/dt, temperature, signal-integrity, etc.
  • Thoroughly understand Ethernet, InfiniBand, and NvLink protocols.

Requirements

  • B.S or MS. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • More than 15 years of experience in ASIC development.
  • More than 7 years of experience in architecture definitions of networking ASICs.
  • At least 6 years of hands-on experience in writing Verilog/VHDL.
  • Strong analytic capabilities and passion for solving logical issues.
  • Ability to drive complex activities involving many interfaces and teams.
  • Good communications skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

  • Knowledge in switching fabrics with strict performance requirements (Networking, SOC connectivity, etc).
  • Experience as an HW-architect.
  • Familiar with working on large high-end ASICs.