Senior Architect, SOC Modeling - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves modeling, analysis, and validation of chip and system architectures and features. You will work on architecture efforts across GPU/SoC Architecture teams.
What you'll do
- Model and analyze SoC & Systems algorithms and features across datacenter, automotive, and client products.
- Build and deliver platforms for SoCs to enable left-shift for software teams, aligned with project milestones.
- Guide modeling teams to deliver high-quality functional models involving SoC+GPU use cases.
- Collaborate with EDA partners on customer-facing technologies.
- Develop tests, test plans, and testing infrastructure for new architectures/features and code coverage analysis and reporting.
- Ensure alignment between various modeling teams at NVIDIA.
What you'll need
- Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Strong programming ability in C++ and C.
- Good understanding of build systems (CMAKE, make).
- Understanding of toolchains (GCC, MSVC) and libraries (STL, BOOST).
- Computer Architecture background.
- Experience in modeling with SystemC & TLM.
- Familiarity with Docker, Jenkins, Python, Perl.
- Ability to work in a distributed team environment.
Skills: modeling, analysis, SoC & Systems algorithms, chip & system architectures, SystemC, TLM
This role has been open 83 days — slightly above the 78-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
472
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$238k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (472 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 56 | 472 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 230 | 3201 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 69 d | 78 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $238k |
Skills observed across this category: modeling, analysis, SoC & Systems algorithms, chip & system architectures, SystemC, TLM
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 73 open roles · median 89 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 56 open roles · median 70 d
- Apple · 36 open roles · median 13 d
- AMD · 34 open roles · median 61 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 116 d
- Micron Technology · 22 open roles · median 108 d
How we counted: 472 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.