Architect - System Performance Verification and Analysis
NVIDIA · Posted Sep 23
Graphics processing units, artificial intelligence platforms, accelerated computing, and data center solutions
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About the role
NVIDIA's System Performance Verification and Analysis team spans the full pre-silicon and post-silicon lifecycle — performance models, RTL simulation, emulation platforms, and silicon bringup — to catch bugs early, influence architecture and design decisions, and ensure the final product delivers the performance customers depend on. The team works on next-generation visual computing, automotive, GPU, and HPC systems, including high-performance CPU and memory subsystems, next-gen GPUs, and NoC-based interconnect fabric. This Architect role defines and drives full-chip SoC performance verification, debugs performance failures across the stack, and influences architecture and microarchitecture decisions through performance data and trade-off analysis.
What you will do
- Partner with System Architecture, Usecase Modeling, Unit Architecture/PV, and Design/Verification teams to define comprehensive performance test plans that reflect real product usecases.
- Drive full-chip SoC performance verification across all real engines and subsystems, running realistic concurrent workloads that represent how the product will be used by customers in the field.
- Execute performance test plans across the full verification stack: cycle-accurate performance models, RTL simulation, emulation platforms, and silicon, identifying bottlenecks and regressions at each stage.
- Debug performance failures through waveform analysis, signal-level queries, trace analysis, and system-level profiling to root-cause issues in the memory subsystem, fabric, or individual engines.
- Influence architecture and microarchitecture decisions by surfacing performance data and trade-off analysis to the design and architecture teams early in the product development cycle.
- Develop and maintain performance workloads, test suites, and infrastructure — including testbench components, performance simulators, analysis scripts, and automated regression flows.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools and automation to accelerate repetitive analysis tasks, improve coverage, and free up engineering time for higher-level problem solving. This includes using LLM-based assistants for querying results and specs, AI-driven triage of regressions, and intelligent tooling that improves over time.
- Drive methodology improvements to reduce verification turnaround time, improve coverage of representative workloads, and enable earlier performance insight in the product development cycle.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B.E./B.Tech or M.S./M.Tech (or equivalent experience) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in SoC or system-level architecture, performance verification, or hardware validation.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture including GPU and CPU pipelines, memory subsystem design (caches, DRAM controllers, coherency), Network-on-Chip (NoC)/fabric architecture, and high-speed IO interfaces.
- Hands-on experience with RTL simulation and debug, including waveform-based debug and signal-level querying to isolate performance failures.
- Solid programming skills in Python and C/C++; scripting proficiency in Bash/Python for automation and analysis. Exposure to Verilog/SystemVerilog or SystemC/TLM is a strong plus.
- Strong debugging, data analysis, and statistical analysis skills — ability to synthesize large volumes of performance data into actionable insights.
- Experience with or exposure to pre-silicon performance analysis methodologies, including performance models, cycle-approximate simulators, or emulation platforms.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a large, globally distributed engineering organization.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep experience with RTL-level performance debug — particularly the ability to formulate precise signal queries and interpret waveforms to root-cause complex system-level interactions.
- Background in system-level performance analysis for GPU, AI accelerators, or high-bandwidth memory subsystems, with knowledge of bottleneck identification across multiple concurrent engines.
- Demonstrated use of AI and LLM-based tools (e.g., NVIDIA NIM/NeMo, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar agentic frameworks) to measurably improve your own engineering productivity — whether for automated analysis, natural-language querying of data, intelligent triage, or workflow automation.
- Experience building or deploying ML/AI-assisted tooling in an engineering or EDA context (e.g., regression analysis, anomaly detection, test generation, coverage closure).
- Expertise in data analysis and visualization — ability to build dashboards and tooling that surface performance trends clearly to both engineering and architecture stakeholders.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a multinational technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Pioneering accelerated computing, the company has become a driving engine of modern artificial intelligence, deep learning, and data center infrastructure.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 42000+ employees
- Founded
- April 5, 1993
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $5M raised
Leadership
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Founder and NVIDIA Fellow
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
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