Senior CPU Performance Architect

NVIDIA Ltd.
Austin, TX, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
$184,000.0 - $356,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence ARM Architecture Computer Engineering Software Debugging Multiprocessing Performance Tuning Systems Architecture Pytorch Information Technology

Job description

  • 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.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Test analysis?, * BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

  • 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • 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.
  • Experience with the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) preferable but not required.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • PhD or Research experience.
  • GPU driver experience.
  • Knowledge of GPU-accelerated workloads and modeling performance of accelerated workloads.
  • Experience with performance optimization of AI frameworks such as PyTorch.

Benefits & conditions

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4, and 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5.

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