System Architect - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$224,000 - $356,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves defining and designing products for AI, high performance computing, and other datacenter markets.
What you'll do
- Drive architecture for datacenter systems considering everything from the chip to the full datacenter.
- Work with silicon, software, networking, and operations teams to define and build future NVIDIA products.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to understand customer needs, translate them into design inputs, and align on consistent strategies.
- Analyze performance, power, and cost of different solutions to understand architectural tradeoffs and align design decisions.
- Define and implement systems from concept through large production deployments.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience working on datacenter systems.
- Deep understanding of hardware architecture and design of servers including mechanical, power, and thermal.
- Understanding of the interaction between server architecture and at-scale datacenter deployment.
- Hands-on experience with problems that span software and hardware.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields (or equivalent experience).
Nice to have
- Experience with large projects involving co-development of custom processors or accelerators, systems, and software.
- Familiarity with GPU compute and NVIDIA networking.
- Understanding of manufacturing operations processes.
- Experience with cloud server deployments and operation.
Skills: datacenter systems, hardware architecture, server design, chip to full datacenter, performance, power, cost
This role has been open 28 days — well below the 54-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
107
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$212k
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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 (107 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 16 | 107 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 986 | 6119 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 73 d | 54 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $212k |
Skills observed across this category: datacenter systems, hardware architecture, server design, chip to full datacenter, performance, power, cost
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 29 open roles · median 54 d
- Qualcomm · 21 open roles · median 42 d
- NVIDIA (this employer) · 16 open roles · median 73 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 41 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 21 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 107 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.
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