Senior Systems Architect - Datacenter - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$184,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
NVIDIA is looking for a Datacenter Systems Architect to join the System Engineering Team to craft blueprints for GPU-based AI Super Computing Datacenters. The role defines and drives engineering tradeoffs in high-performance datacenter design across power, cooling, and layout.
What you'll do
- Help create and deploy NVIDIA's reference AI Super Computer datacenter designs. - Define key engineering requirements and specifications to drive collaboration with system leads, customer requirements and engagements, marketing, and application engineers. - Provide requirements, engineering responses, feasibility analysis, present options, and ensure datacenter designs meet the optimal balance of performance, quality, scalability, re-use, reliability, cost, and time-to-market. - Document designs and plans to encourage collaboration with other design teams and as a reference for future deployments. - Provide status updates and communicate issues internally, providing recommendations to help with complex tradeoffs.
What you'll need
- BS (Masters preferred) in Applied Science or Engineering (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of overall experience. - Technical knowledge of datacenter design and familiarity with power and cooling technologies. - In-depth understanding of relevant datacenter industry partners, OEM and ODM, vendors, and competitors.
Skills: AI Super Computing Datacenters, datacenter design, power, cooling and layout, GPU based, system engineering
This role has been open 140 days — well above the 52-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
104
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$203k
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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 (104 roles · 27 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 13 | 104 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 995 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 77 d | 52 d (+25 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $203k |
Skills observed across this category: AI Super Computing Datacenters, datacenter design, power, cooling and layout, GPU based, system engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 64 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 52 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 13 open roles · median 78 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 51 d
- Mobileye · 5 open roles · median 31 d
- Renesas Electronics · 4 open roles · median 3 d
How we counted: 104 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.