Staff SoC Architect, AI Data Center

What you'll do

• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate product and workload needs into SoC and system specifications and feature requirements.
• Conduct architecture, product-definition, and competitive studies, quantifying system tradeoffs and guiding implementation.
• Correlate modeled and measured performance, identify root causes of gaps, drive performance closure, and mentor technical contributors.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; or a Master’s degree and 3+ years; or a PhD and 2+ years.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products, such as Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, or Hardware Islands.

Nice to have

• MS or PhD in EE, ECE, CE, CS, or a related field; 7+ years of relevant experience in SoC, platform, or system architecture, AI accelerators, memory architecture, or memory technologies.
• Expertise in architecture studies and performance analysis; understanding of generative AI and machine-learning workloads, especially Large Language Model inference; programming ability, with object-oriented C++ and Python preferred.

Pay

$155,400.00 - $233,200.00 USD base salary

Tools

SoC, LPDDR, HBM, DDR, GDDR, Ethernet, InfiniBand, RDMA

AI focus

Architect SoCs and data-center systems for generative AI inference workloads; understanding of LLM inference and accelerator bottlenecks is an additional qualification, and the posting asks for fluency using AI to accelerate workflows.