We are looking for aSenior DL System and SOC Architect - Hardware! Do you want to be part of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution? Would you like to work with world-class architects and deep learning experts to define the next generation SoC? NVIDIA is developing processor and system architectures that are at the forefront of accelerating machine learning, automotive and high-performance computing applications. We are building the most advanced SoC's in the world for these applications and are looking for DL System & SoC architects to join our growing team. In this position, you will have the chance to define future aspects of our architectures that bring together NVIDIA GPUs, custom processors and accelerators into a single chip. Your role will be cross-disciplinary, working with software, ASIC design, verification, physical design, VLSI and platform teams. Our DL System & SoC architects excel at pushing the state of the art, while making the best engineering trade-offs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop innovative system architectures incorporating HW Accelerators, DSP, GPU, Memory subsystem to extend the state of the art in deep learning performance and efficiency.
• Hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle ownership.
• Understand and analyze the interplay of hardware and software architectures on future algorithms and applications.
• Drive Architecture/Software/Hardware co-design and teamwork on features set.
• Perform performance, perf @ watt, perf / sq. mm modeling or analysis and track through design (where applicable).
• Hardware specification authoring, review, and System C model development (where applicable).
• Review downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are followed.
• Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation .
  
  

What We Need To See

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of architecture, design and/or verification experience.
• Strong leadership skills and experience.
• You have relevant industry expertise in crafting compute and SoC architecture definition - to accelerate deep learning computational workloads - Compute IPs, Interconnects, Memory subsystems, Memory Controller, Power Management, Scheduler & DMAs, Multimedia accelerator pipelines, CPU/GPU coherency, IO technologies (PCIE, Camera Interfaces, etc), Platform integration.
• Experience with systems-level performance modeling, profiling, and analysis and carrying out comparison and trade-off studies.
• Comfortable communicating and solving issues at all levels of architecture definition from micro-architecture to system level to software architecture.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team.
  
  

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Automotive Functional Safety expertise, working experience with ISO26262 standard.
• System C or C++ development skills, or relevant programming experience.
• Inventions in one or more relevant domains.
  
  

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