Mythic
VP, Systems Engineering
$250K–$375K
Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years; no stated alternatives.
About the job
Leads systems engineering to bring Mythic’s AI chips from post-silicon validation through reliable, customer-ready hardware platforms and deployments.
What you'll do
- Own post-silicon bring-up, platform validation, and characterization for AMP-based products, including the M1076 APU, PCIe cards, and M.2 modules.
- Build and scale the systems engineering team and lead hardware/software co-validation, test automation, and characterization.
- Resolve customer and partner technical issues and feed validation and field learnings into future chip and system design.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in systems engineering, silicon bring-up, or platform validation, with progressively larger scope managing engineering teams.
- Experience taking chips from tape-out through post-silicon validation into shipping hardware products.
- Technical grounding in the hardware/software boundary, board-level electrical debug, and compiler/firmware stacks for custom silicon.
- Track record building and scaling a systems or validation organization, and supporting external customers or OEM partners through silicon qualification and deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience with novel compute architectures, such as analog, in-memory, or non-GPU AI accelerators.
- Background in large-scale systems engineering or familiarity with edge AI deployment environments such as robotics, automotive, or defense.
Pay
USD 250,000–375,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary
Tools
M1076 APU, PCIe, M.2
AI focus
Leads systems engineering and validation for AI accelerator products, ensuring performance in customer workloads and deployments.
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