CareerPlan

Low power AI/ML System Architect

San Diego, California, United States of AmericaFull-time$155k–$233k2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architecting and optimizing low-power embedded AI subsystems for XR and ambient use cases, focusing on performance/power trade-offs across DSP/AI hardware and software.

Role type

Senior IC low-power AI/ML system architect

Builds

Power-efficient on-device AI solutions for Mobile, XR, Compute, and IoT platforms

Domain

Semiconductor / Embedded Systems / AI Hardware

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Embedded ML accelerators, NPUs, low power design, RTOS, Python, PyTorch, Executorch, memory systems, data movement, bandwidth analysis, cache strategies, power modeling, power analysis, system-level power optimization, fixed-point implementation, algorithm optimization

Preferred skills

Qualcomm NPU and LPAI architectures, SDKs, ML model training and inference workloads

Technologies

Snapdragon SOCs, Python, PyTorch, Executorch

Responsibilities

Analyze and optimize performance and power of AI systems with focus on always-on AI workloads; Support system integration, benchmarking, and commercialization of AI solutions; Perform detailed data-path and memory-access analysis to identify bottlenecks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC