Senior CPU Performance Architect

NVIDIA, US, CA, Santa Clara +2

What you will do

Work on workload bring-up and performance analysis/projection, both on silicon and full-system simulator.
Study workloads for a wide range of markets, including AI/DL, CSP, HPC, and autonomous vehicles.
Study real world use-cases and identify critical application behavior and reduce to directed test cases.
Analyze and debug performance scaling bottlenecks on multi-core and multi-socket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
Work with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future CPU and system designs based on your findings.
Benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against competition and suggest software or hardware improvements.

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

NVIDIA, US, CA, Santa Clara +2

$224K–$431K

a year

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Work on workload bring-up and performance analysis/projection, both on silicon and full-system simulator.
Study workloads for a wide range of markets, including AI/DL, CSP, HPC, and autonomous vehicles.
Study real world use-cases and identify critical application behavior and reduce to directed test cases.
Analyze and debug performance scaling bottlenecks on multi-core and multi-socket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
Work with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future CPU and system designs based on your findings.
Benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against competition and suggest software or hardware improvements.

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.