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# AI Hardware Architect

- **Company:** NVIDIA Corporation
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $287,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Memory Management, Firmware, Network Protocols, Systems Architecture, Large Language Models
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/ai-hardware-architect-2100-nvidia-usa-8741488

## About the Role

* Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)
 * 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
 * Experience building high performance microarchitectural structures. Experience with industry standard bus protocols.
 * Clear understanding of the performance, power and security implications of microarchitectural features.
 * 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.
 * Publications or other evidence of original chip/system architecture work is a plus.

## Description

* Work on groundbreaking GPU and CPU systems. Understand them across a range of disciplines and identify areas for improvement.
 * Study the applications and models running on Nvidia hardware and their architectural implications
 * Come up with microarchitectural solutions for connectivity, coherency, power management, security, memory management and other SOC level issues.
 * 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 microarchitectural structures.