Architect Labs
Chief Architect
Palo Alto · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Define architectures for next-generation AI compute silicon and build AI-enabled methods to discover and optimize architectures for AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Set architectural direction and make decisions across compute, memory, interconnect, and hardware–software co-design.
- Build an architecture-search pipeline connecting workload analysis, design-space exploration, performance modeling, and PPA feedback.
- Partner with ASIC and software leaders to bring architectural ideas to silicon and resolve key tradeoffs.
What they ask for
- Defined and shipped multiple industry-leading CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, or complex SoCs.
- Deep expertise in computer architecture, performance modeling, memory systems, interconnects, power/performance/area tradeoffs, and software–hardware co-design.
- Demonstrated architectural decisions that improved performance, efficiency, scalability, or product competitiveness in deployed silicon.
- Ability to lead technically, challenge assumptions, simplify complex systems, and mentor engineers.
Tools
CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, SoCs
AI focus
Use AI to explore and co-optimize hardware architectures; build an autoresearch architecture-search pipeline for AI workloads.
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