The Distinguished Engineer role at NVIDIA focuses on defining the architecture for future accelerated computing systems, emphasizing performance strategy across applications, systems, and architecture. The position requires a deep understanding of system performance and scaling, particularly in relation to DRAM, NVLink, and C2C interconnects. The engineer will work closely with various teams to ensure alignment on architectural decisions that lead to significant system-level improvements. This role is critical for shaping product and technology decisions based on emerging opportunities and architectural insights.

• MSEE, MSCE, PhD, or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 18+ years of relevant industry or academic experience, including experience setting architecture direction for complex, high-performance systems.
• Deep understanding of system performance and scaling, including interactions among DRAM behavior, high-bandwidth fabrics such as NVLink, and C2C communication.
• Strong application-level intuition, including the ability to connect workload algorithms, parallelism, communication, locality, and data movement to architecture choices and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to create and advance a multi-generation technical strategy through influence across silicon, systems, software, and application teams.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers into broader architecture leadership roles and building strong technical communities.

• Define the multi-generation strategy for application scaling across DRAM, NVLink, C2C, compute, and the supporting software stack.
• Translate the behavior of important AI, HPC, and accelerated computing applications into architectural requirements, performance targets, and investment priorities.
• Build a clear view of how bottlenecks shift as workloads scale across dies, GPUs, nodes, model sizes, data sets, and communication patterns.
• Evaluate system-level trade-offs across bandwidth, latency, capacity, topology, coherence, power, area, cost, programmability, and resiliency.
• Establish common workload scenarios, scaling metrics, models, and decision frameworks for architecture teams.
• Identify architectural discontinuities and emerging technology opportunities early enough to shape product and technology decisions.
• Provide clear recommendations to senior technical and business leaders, including assumptions, sensitivities, risks, and expected impact.
• Mentor system performance architects and strengthen technical communities across teams.

• Employees at NVIDIA are often offered comprehensive, day-one benefits—including medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with auto-enrollment. Many roles also have generous time off and holidays, donation matching (up to $10,000), and a wide menu of extras like FSAs, commuter benefits, legal and identity-theft protection, pet insurance, and wellness discounts. Optional programs can include student-loan and home-purchase support, plus family care resources and expert medical services.