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Senior CPU Performance Architect

📍 Location
Santa Clara
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 14, 2026

About the Role

Do you want to help drive the development of CPU technology for architectures used for artificial intelligence (AI) / deep learning (DL), high-performance computing (HPC), cloud service providers (CSP), gaming, virtual reality, and autonomous vehicles? Come join the CPU performance architecture team and help us push performance boundaries for all our CPU products!
What you'll be doing:
+ Work on workload bring-up and performance analysis/projection, both on silicon and full-system simulator.
+ Study workloads for a wide range of markets, including AI/DL, CSP, HPC, and autonomous vehicles.
+ Study real world use-cases and identify critical application behavior and reduce to directed test cases.
+ Analyze and debug performance scaling bottlenecks on multi-core and multi-socket CPU and CPU/GPU systems.
+ Work with CPU and interconnect architects to improve future CPU and system designs based on your findings.
+ Benchmark NVIDIA’s CPU offerings against competition an...

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