Senior CPU Performance Architect
NVIDIAJob Title
Senior CPU Performance Architect
Role Summary
Join the CPU performance architecture team to bring up workloads, analyze performance on silicon and in full-system simulation, and drive CPU and system improvements. The role focuses on workload characterization, performance debugging, benchmarking, and collaborating with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future designs.
Experience Level
Senior — 7+ years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include workload bring-up, performance analysis, and cross-team collaboration to improve CPU and system designs.
- Bring up workloads and perform performance analysis and projection on silicon and full-system simulators.
- Study workloads across AI/DL, cloud service providers, HPC, gaming, and autonomous vehicle markets.
- Identify critical application behavior, reduce to directed test cases, and reproduce real-world use cases.
- Analyze and debug performance scaling bottlenecks on multi-core and multi-socket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
- Collaborate with CPU and interconnect architects to inform hardware and system design decisions.
- Benchmark CPU offerings against competitors and recommend software or hardware improvements.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and experience. Educational degrees are summarized separately below.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in CPU performance, systems, or architecture work.
- Experience with CPU workloads and performance analysis.
- Knowledge of performance test development and benchmarking for CPU and I/O.
- Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and system architecture.
- Familiarity with the ARM instruction set architecture (preferred but not required).
Education Requirements
BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent practical experience accepted. PhD or research experience is listed as a distinguishing plus.
About the Company
Company: NVIDIA
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA
NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.
