NVIDIA · 8 hours ago
Senior GPU Low Power Architect
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $213K/yr
4+ years expNVIDIA is known as a world leader in providing energy-efficient high-performance products, and they are seeking a Senior GPU Low Power Architect within their Hardware Team. The role involves innovating low power architectural solutions and collaborating with engineers to enhance energy efficiency across various platforms.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer ElectronicsGPUHardwareSoftwareVirtual Reality
Responsibilities
Invent and innovate low power architectural/RTL solutions and drive features and roadmaps for improving efficiency of our Desktop, Notebook and server platforms
You'll work cross functionally with other System/SW Architects, and Product engineers to understand energy efficiency improvements
Architect, Design and Verify features to help improve battery life and energy efficiency
Participate in architectural studies, tradeoff analysis, micro-architecture, and design, planning, verification, and validation efforts
Contribute to the development of techniques to develop highly accurate power and performance models for our GPUs, CPUs, Switches, and platforms
Drive performance vs power analysis to enable management/marketing with meaningful product decisions and customer interaction
Qualification
Required
MSEE/MSCE (or equivalent experience) and 4 + years' proven experience or PhD, with a specialization in Low Power Architectures or energy efficient design techniques is essential
Design experience with industry tools such as SystemVerilog RTL, UVM, Verdi, UPF, VCS NLP, Python, C++ are essential
Cross-discipline experience with understanding of HW/SW/System level interactions in important power efficiency scenarios
Solid understanding of advanced digital and analog circuits is highly desirable
Exposure to lab setup including power measurement equipment such as scope/DAQ. Your ability to analyze board-level power issues like supply voltage, over-current etc is helpful
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and the ability & desire to work as a phenomenal teammate
Preferred
Background with HW/SW interactions
Experience with Power what iffs and tradeoffs
Experience in Clock tree power reduction and CG strategies
Background with RAM power optimization
Experience with directed and random functional testing including writing test plans and directed or random diagnostics
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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
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