Senior CPU Performance Architect

at Nvidia

📍 Santa Clara, United States

USD 224,000-431,200 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

Help drive the development of CPU technology for architectures used in artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), high-performance computing (HPC), cloud service providers (CSP), gaming, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles. Join the CPU performance architecture team to advance performance across CPU products.

Responsibilities

Perform workload bring-up and performance analysis and projection on silicon and full-system simulators.
Study workloads across AI/DL, CSP, HPC, and autonomous vehicle markets.
Analyze real-world use cases, identify critical application behavior, and reduce findings to directed test cases.
Analyze and debug performance-scaling bottlenecks on multicore and multisocket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
Collaborate with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future CPU and system designs.
Benchmark NVIDIA CPU offerings against competing products and recommend software or hardware improvements.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
At least 12 years of relevant experience.
Experience with CPU workloads and performance analysis.
Knowledge of performance test development and benchmarking for CPU and I/O.
Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and system architecture.
Experience with the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) is preferred but not required.

Preferred Qualifications

PhD or research experience.
GPU driver experience.
Knowledge of GPU-accelerated workloads and performance modeling for accelerated workloads.
Experience optimizing AI frameworks such as PyTorch.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary for Level 5: USD 224,000–356,500 per year.
Base salary for Level 6: USD 272,000–431,250 per year.
Eligible for equity and benefits.

NVIDIA develops accelerated computing technologies for AI, HPC, advanced system design, robotics, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, climate research, and other applications. Its CPU architecture work includes the Grace CPU Superchip and Vera CPU, integrating CPU technology with NVIDIA GPUs and broader systems for AI model training, agentic use cases, data processing, and cloud deployments.