Principal CPU Software Architect

Do you want to be a part of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution? Would you like to work with world-class systems architects and deep learning professionals to define the next generation CPUs and System on Chips? NVIDIA is developing processor and system architectures that are at the forefront of accelerating agentic AI, building data centers, and enabling other high-performance computing applications. We are architecting the most advanced CPUs and SoC's in the world for these applications and are looking for software architects to join our effort. In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with teams to maximize the potential of our SoC products, bringing together NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs, custom processors and accelerators. Your role will be cross disciplinary, collaborating with industry partners, customers, internal architects, software, ASIC design, verification, and platform teams. Our software architects excel at pushing the state of the art, while making the best engineering trade-offs.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with Hardware and Software Engineers to craft the next generation CPUs and SoCs
• Bring a deep understanding of Software Architecture, system software technologies, and modern OSes to drive hardware architecture decisions
• Provide direction and advice for designing optimized solutions to various software engineering organizations
• Collaborate with key partners to customize solutions to meet their requirements
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• You have a MS or PhD degree in computer or electrical engineering or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of software and/or architecture experience with CPUs and SoCs.
• A deep knowledge of OS/driver software stacks, e.g., Linux and a very strong Software development background with C
• Excellent communication skills to describe hard problems in simple terms and drive multi-functional groups to efficient engineering solutions
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a global team

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Excellent understanding of processor architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, x86
• Background with virtualization technologies and hypervisors
• Familiarity with CPU and SoC security architecture, such as ARM Confidential Compute
• Experience in working with the Linux open source community

Be an Early Applicant In-Office Boulder, CO, USA 272K-489K Annually Expert/Leader In-Office Boulder, CO, USA 272K-489K Annually Expert/Leader Lead cross-disciplinary software architecture for next-generation CPUs and SoCs, collaborating with hardware, software, ASIC, verification, and platform teams. Influence hardware decisions via deep system software, OS/driver, and performance expertise, advise partners and senior management, and drive optimized solutions for AI and HPC workloads. The summary above was generated by AI, Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6, and 320,000 USD - 488,750 USD for Level 7.

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