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AI Hardware Architect

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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX$184k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

AI Hardware Architect role focused on analyzing and architecting next-generation AI hardware, including GPUs, CPUs, and chiplets. Involves microarchitectural design, system-level integration, performance/power/security considerations, and collaboration across hardware, software, firmware, and platforms to deliver high-performance AI chips.

Responsibilities

  • Work on groundbreaking GPU and CPU systems. Understand them across a range of disciplines and identify areas for improvement.
  • Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications
  • Come up with microarchitectural solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, memory management and other SOC level issues.
  • Understand and help drive implementation of bus protocols, networking protocols, memory access and security solutions across a range of products.
  • Work with software, firmware, platform and multi-functional teams on system architecture.
  • Model, analyze, and explain the performance and power advantages of Nvidia solutions.
  • Guide customers and firmware engineers to extract the most performance from microarchitectural structures.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience building high performance microarchitectural structures. Experience with industry standard bus protocols
  • Clear understanding of the performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills
  • A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth
  • Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills. Good understanding of LLMs
  • Publications or other evidence of original chip/system architecture work is a plus

Skills

Required:Mastered degree in CE/EEIndustry experienceMicroarchitectural designBus protocolsPerformance/power/security analysisCollaborationLearning agilityCoding and algorithms

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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