Senior GPU System Architect, Context Management and Register Architecture
NVIDIA· Architect
Santa Clara, CA$184k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior System Architect to define GPU context-management mechanisms and the register address and access architecture, collaborating across ASIC, firmware, driver, verification, and performance teams from architecture through silicon bring-up.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve GPU context-management mechanisms, including efficient methods for saving and restoring execution state.
- Own the GPU-wide register address map, coordinate address allocation, resolve conflicts, and maintain a scalable architecture through multiple product iterations.
- Define requirements, interfaces, compatibility expectations, and on-die and cross-die interconnects for register access and programming.
- Develop C++ functional-model support and collaborate with hardware build, embedded software, device software, testing, and performance groups to translate architectural requirements into coordinated solutions.
- Evaluate tradeoffs across performance, area, complexity, scalability, reliability, compatibility, and development effort.
- Build validation strategies, debug cross-stack issues through pre-silicon validation and initial silicon testing, and improve the tools and automation supporting register-interface development.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of proven experience in computer architecture, GPU architecture, CPU architecture, system-on-chip design, or a related area.
- Experience designing, modeling, or validating sophisticated hardware features from definition through confirmation, with proficiency in C++ and Python or a comparable scripting language.
- Strong understanding of interactions among hardware, firmware, and system software, with a demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning components or abstraction layers.
- Experience developing coherent architectural standards across multiple teams, paired with clear technical writing skills and experience crafting specifications and collaborating with distributed, cross-functional groups.
Skills
Required:GPU context-managementRegister address mapC++ functional-modelingPython or scriptingHardware-software interaction
Benefits
- equity
- benefits (as listed on NVIDIA benefits page)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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