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Principal AI Silicon Architect

United States, California, Mountain View💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define high-performance silicon architecture specifications for AI accelerators and guide end-to-end silicon development cycles.

Role type

Principal AI Silicon Architect

Builds

AI accelerator chips, high-performance SoCs, and multi-chiplet architectures

Domain

Semiconductor hardware design, AI hardware acceleration, high-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Silicon architecture specification, functional and analytical modeling of silicon IP blocks, machine learning acceleration (matrix multiplication, numerical formats, parallel computing), SIMD/SIMT vector processor architecture, scalable Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures, memory subsystem architecture (HBM, high-bandwidth data movement), hardware/software co-design, high-power large-scale SoC design, multi-chiplet architecture, system-level architectural thinking, performance/power/area/cost tradeoff analysis

Preferred skills

Experience leading end-to-end silicon programs from architecture to production readiness, cross-functional collaboration across design, verification, firmware, and software teams, expertise in GPU/CPU/networking silicon products

Technologies

HBM, NoC, multi-chiplet architectures, SIMD/SIMT, high-bandwidth interconnect fabrics

Responsibilities

Develop silicon architecture specifications for AI accelerators, create functional and analytical models of silicon IP blocks, collaborate with AI software and hardware teams to optimize silicon architecture for current and future AI models, support and guide Design, DV, Emulation, Firmware, and Kernel development teams through the End-to-End Silicon development cycle, drive cross-functional collaboration across architecture, design, software, firmware, verification, product engineering, and system teams, define and deliver AI accelerator, GPU, CPU, networking, or other high-performance silicon products

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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