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Seeking Principal CPU/Fabric Architects to develop next-gen CPU cores for various NVIDIA products. If you're passionate about enhancing CPU performance through innovative ideas, modeling, and implementation, keep reading!

What you'll be doing:

• Work with other micro-architects and senior designers to suggest and showcase the strengths and weaknesses of new CPU & Fabric microarchitectural features. This will improve performance in targeted workloads while considering area and power consumption.

• Perform detailed performance modeling, debugging, and studies to support the inclusion of features in the next generation core microarchitecture. Consider performance, area, and power improvement factors.

• Partner with design and verification leads to iterate through specification, implementation in RTL and verification of the microarchitecture features to achieve target functionality, performance, frequency, area, power and verifiability.

• Collaborate with Silicon Bring-up and Product teams to verify and debug the microarchitecture and its delivered performance.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to drive microarchitectural proposals within the CPU Core and collaborate effectively with colleagues across different functions within the organization, using both verbal and written communication.

What we need to see:

• MS, PhD in a relevant CPU and Fabric microarchitecture area or equivalent experience.

• At least 10+ years of relevant experiences.

• Prior experience innovating and architecting around Coherency Protocols, Fabric topology perf/power/area tradeoffs, Fabric Congestion Management & QoS features such as cache capacity and memory bandwidth apportioning mechanisms in large core-count systems is big plus.

• Prior experience in CPU, Fabric & SOC memory subsystem (caches, prefetchers etc.) large core-count SoCs and core CPU microarchitecture is required.

• A deep understanding of the state of the art of CPU microarchitecture and architecture

• Experience in one ore more of the following: Memory Subsystem CPU micro-arch (MMU/TLB, Address Gen, Load/Store Units, L1, L2 caches, Prefetch), System / SOC Fabric & Memory Subsystem Uarch, Large System Cache Coherency, Experience in control theory design and mechanisms for dynamic feedback systems.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• A technology enthusiast and passionate about what you do.

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills to effectively discuss and present microarchitectural ideas to colleagues and implementation leads using various mediums.

The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 419,750 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.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.