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# Senior CPU Performance Architect

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,000.0 - $356,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, ARM Architecture, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Multiprocessing, Performance Tuning, Systems Architecture, Pytorch, Information Technology
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5a8dfbc0784fd902

## About the Role

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.

## 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.


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