Intel
HPC System Architecture
$221K–$312K
US, California, Santa Clara +1 · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Location
- US, California, Santa Clara
US, Oregon, Hillsboro - Experience
- 10+ years in HPC, data center, or server system architecture, design, or engineering; 5+ years in a customer-facing or externally-facing technical role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Defines next-generation Intel HPC system architectures and translates customer workloads into cluster designs, silicon requirements, performance models, and product roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Own cluster architecture, including compute nodes, memory, storage, and scale-out interconnects.
- Partner with CPU and GPU teams and HPC customers on requirements, co-design, benchmarks, and roadmap decisions.
- Develop performance models and reference architectures, and provide technical direction to the architecture team.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in HPC, data center, or server system architecture, design, or engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing or externally-facing technical role.
- Demonstrated experience defining or deploying large-scale compute clusters.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in a relevant technical discipline.
- Experience defining next-generation systems with CPU or GPU teams, supporting large-scale HPC procurements, or modeling performance at scale.
Pay
$220,920.00-311,890.00 USD (annual target compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
CPU, GPU, MPI, OpenMP, InfiniBand, Ultra Ethernet
AI focus
Preferred experience includes converged HPC and AI system design.
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