Senior Memory System Architect
$152,000 - $287,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves driving memory system architecture for NVIDIA's SOCs.
What you'll do
- Drive architecture and micro-architecture development to optimize memory systems for performance and power efficiency.
- Perform performance modeling and simulation to enhance memory system performance.
- Implement and maintain detailed and high-level performance models.
- Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results to identify micro-architectural optimization tradeoffs.
- Debug performance and functional issues using high-level models, RTL simulation, and silicon.
What you'll need
- M.S. or Ph.D. in CS, CE, or EE or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years experience in SoC or memory system architecture and performance.
- Deep understanding of memory subsystems – caches and coherence protocols, DDR and memory controller architecture, on-chip interconnects, address translation.
- Exposure/coursework related to Digital systems and VLSI design, Computer Architecture, C/C++ programming languages.
- Software development experience with C++, python and/or perl.
Nice to have
- Verilog or SV/UVM experience.
- Significant experience with performance modeling or performance verification.
- Experience debugging and solving complex performance issues.
Skills: memory system architecture, performance modeling, cache coherence protocols, DDR, on-chip interconnects
This role has been open 59 days — well below the 75-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
442
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Median days open
75 d
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Median salary
$236k
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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 (442 roles · 64 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 57 | 442 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 225 | 3109 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 59 d | 75 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: memory system architecture, performance modeling, cache coherence protocols, DDR, on-chip interconnects
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 71 open roles · median 82 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 57 open roles · median 59 d
- AMD · 36 open roles · median 61 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 102 d
- Renesas Electronics · 22 open roles · median 59 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 20 open roles · median 104 d
How we counted: 442 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 64 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 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.