CareerPlan

Sr Director, Silicon Performance and Design Execution

Santa Clara, CaliforniaFull-time2026-06-30 → 2026-10-22
No visa sponsorship

Core

Own end-to-end silicon performance and design execution for complex SoCs and accelerators, driving system-level performance attainment and hardware/software optimizations for AI/ML workloads.

Role type

Senior Director, Silicon Performance and Design Execution

Builds

Data Center GPU products and AI cluster solutions

Domain

Semiconductor / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI/ML performance engineering, LLM/generative AI workload management, Data Center GPU architecture, Systems Architecture, performance modeling, parallelization techniques, silicon debug, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Large-scale training/inference workload experience, rack-scale system profiling, software framework optimization (PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, JAX, TensorFlow, ONNX)

Technologies

PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, JAX, TensorFlow, Transformer Engine, ONNX

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end performance leadership for AI/ML workloads; Provide leadership in AI workloads across LLMs and ranking engines; Develop organizational capabilities to scale workloads; Provide direction for system profiling and analysis; Outline strategic influence on architecture features

Seniority

Senior Director, global team management (30-50+ engineers)