Hardware Architect - NVLink Fusion

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2 Locations
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224K-431K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Robotics • Metaverse
The Role
The Hardware Architect will design and analyze NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion AI systems, focusing on connectivity, power management, and team collaboration to optimize performance.
Summary Generated by Built In

NVIDIA is hiring a Hardware Architect to analyze and architect the next generation of NVLink Fusion AI scale up hardware. We are looking for special individuals with a passion for delivering innovative products. Together, we will build life-changing datacenter scale AI systems for the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market. If you have knowledge of computer architecture, hardware-software codesign, and interchip communication, and are looking to learn and grow, this is the opportunity you are looking for.  

What you'll be doing: 

  • Work on groundbreaking AI scale up systems. Understand them across a range of disciplines and build holistic solutions 

  • Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications

  • Come up with system level solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, and memory management.  

  • Understand and help drive implementation of bus protocols, networking protocols, memory access and security solutions across a range of products.  

  • Work with software, firmware, platform and multi-functional teams on system architecture.  

  • Model, analyze, and explain the performance and power advantages of NVIDIA solutions.  

  • Guide customers and firmware engineers to extract the most performance from NVIDIA hardware 

What we need to see: 

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

  • 12+ years of relevant experience.  

  • Industry experience building high performance connectivity architectures. Experience with standard networking and bus protocols.  

  • Clear understanding of hardware-software codesign 

  • Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills.  

  • A drive to continuously learn and expand architectural breadth and depth.  

  • Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills.  

  • Good understanding of LLMs is a plus. 

  • Publications or other evidence of original chip/system architecture work is a plus.  

Join the future of chip building, you will contribute to innovative products with a dedicated team! 

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until June 6, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy. 

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive 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.

Skills Required

  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
  • 12+ years of relevant experience
  • Industry experience building high performance connectivity architectures
  • Experience with standard networking and bus protocols
  • Clear understanding of hardware-software codesign
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills
  • Excellent coding and algorithmic thinking skills

NVIDIA Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NVIDIA and has not been reviewed or approved by NVIDIA.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity awards and a discounted ESPP are highlighted as core parts of total compensation, enabling employees to share in the company’s success. Stock-based compensation and the two-year lookback ESPP are consistently described as especially valuable.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is portrayed as robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options alongside mental health support and on-site care resources. Employer HSA contributions and wellness perks reinforce the depth of the offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs are depicted as strong, featuring a meaningful 401(k) match with Roth options and support for Mega Backdoor Roth contributions. These elements position long-term savings as a notable advantage of the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
21,960 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

What We Do

NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.”

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