AI SoC Hardware Architect

The Architect Who Closes the Gap. The Engineer Who Makes Silicon Inevitable. Location: Austin, TX. Team: Cross-functional leadership across Model Engineering, AI Infrastructure, and Silicon Architecture.

Responsibilities

Analyze workload specific testcases tailored to real-world applications, using LLMs, multimodal systems, signal processing pipelines, inference engines, and translate them into concrete hardware requirements; Build and create the performance modeling environment that determines compute investments, memory hierarchy decisions, and feature prioritization; Profile real workloads on real and future platforms and identify bottlenecks in memory, compute, scheduling, and architecture; Align hardware architects, AI researchers, and infrastructure teams by translating across different mental models and vocabularies; Own the binding agreement between what AI workloads demand, what software systems can express, and what custom silicon can physically deliver

Requirements

12+ years of industry experience across AI, systems, or silicon; Proven experience at the intersection of hardware and intelligent compute systems; Hardware/software co-design leadership across full product cycles; Demonstrated performance modeling expertise — analytical, simulation, or cycle-approximate; Track record of influencing architectural and product decisions across multiple technical organizations; Exceptional written communication and technical specification ability; Strong Python and C++ skills; Understanding modern AI architectures from the inside — inference systems, quantization strategies, deployment constraints, and workload behavior in silicon utilization; Experience with processor, accelerator, or custom silicon architectures — compute pipelines, memory hierarchies, on-chip interconnects, performance tradeoff analysis

Nice to have

Experience with custom silicon, accelerators, or advanced hardware platforms; Prior involvement in ISA definition, memory hierarchy design, or accelerator roadmap decisions

Benefits

Choice of three medical plan options and dental plan option; company credits for medical and dental premiums; 401(k) with automatic 3% company contribution and matching contributions; basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage; short-term and long-term disability coverage; Stock Purchase Plan; minimum 15 days of accrued vacation; up to 3 personal days per year; 11 annual holidays; 8 hours of volunteer time; 80 hours of sick time annually; up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave; 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% pay; financial wellness programs; educational assistance; matching gifts; recognition programs