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June 19, 2025

Lead Architect - NVLink Fusion

Senior • On-site

$168,000 - $310,500/yr

Santa Clara, CA , +1

NVIDIA is hiring an Architecture Lead to drive the development of datacenter solutions bringing together industry leading CPU, GPU, and Networking technologies. We are looking for special individuals with a passion and desire to deliver innovative products. Together, we will build the next generation of life changing chips. If you are a motivated individual that understands how SoC systems are architected and built, has intimate knowledge of digital design, and understands chip development cycles, this is your place to be.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Drive day to day execution of chip architecture for NVIDIA's innovative NVLink Fusion platform

  • Develop, evaluate, review and refine architectural and microarchitectural solutions on bus protocols, networking protocols, security, power management and performance.

  • Understand the product impact of architectural decisions across multiple dimensions including performance, power, resiliency, programmability, security, and schedule. Own the architectural tradeoff process.

  • Work with teams throughout the company (Design, Implementation, Software, Circuit, Thermal, Platform, Operations, Marketing, etc...) implementing and guiding cross-team solutions to achieve product targets.

  • Analyze and explain the advantages of NVIDIA chips and guide customers, and internal/external partners to extract the most performance from our chips

What We Need To See:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)

  • 7+ years of relevant work experience focused on CPU, GPU and high performance architectures.

  • Experience building complex microarchitectural structures and working with industry standard components/protocols for compute, fabric, memory, and attached devices.

  • 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 and microarchitectural breadth and depth.

  • Experience negotiating solutions across design, verification, PD, and IP teams.

Join the future of chip design, you will work on groundbreaking products with a dedicated team!

The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 310,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.