Rajiv Parihar

Rajiv Parihar is an accomplished engineering leader with extensive experience in hardware engineering. Currently serving as the Director of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA since August 2009, Rajiv Parihar has been instrumental in leading the development of next-generation CPUs, improving internal design processes, and cultivating talent within the organization. Prior to this, Rajiv Parihar held the position of Senior Hardware Design Manager at NVIDIA and served as the Manager of Design Engineering at AMD from 2003 to August 2009, where leadership of a team focused on next-generation microprocessors was key. Rajiv Parihar also worked as VP of Engineering at Zucotto Wireless from 2000 to 2003, overseeing multiple teams to deliver advanced hardware and software solutions for the cellphone market, and began a career at Intel from 1995 to 2000 as part of the P6 microprocessor team, contributing to the design of the Pentium 4 microprocessor. Rajiv Parihar holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from McGill University and has additional education from the University of Waterloo.