CareerPlan

Senior AI Systems Architect/Researcher

US, Oregon, HillsboroFull-time$195k–$276k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Define next-generation networking silicon and platform architecture for hyperscale AI workloads, translating communication and memory bottlenecks into IP and platform direction.

Role type

Senior AI systems architect/researcher (networking & interconnect)

Builds

IPU/DPU platforms, advanced packet processing, programmable networking, and data-movement technologies for distributed AI systems

Domain

Hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, AI workloads, networking silicon

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI training/inference system architecture, hardware-software co-design, computer architecture (networking/interconnect/memory), C/C++ and Python, systems thinking, workload analysis, memory hierarchy optimization

Preferred skills

Memory wall analysis, high-performance networking (RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand), IPU/DPU/SmartNIC SoC design, PCIe/CXL semantics, cross-team technical leadership

Technologies

vLLM, SGLang, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, PCIe, CXL, IPU, DPU, NIC, SoC, xPU

Responsibilities

Analyze AI workloads to identify bottlenecks and translate into new IP; Drive hardware-software co-design across compute, DPU/IPU, NIC, and AI runtimes; Define architectural direction for data movement across xPU-to-xPU and cross-node paths; Investigate memory wall bottlenecks in large-scale AI and Agentic inference; Shape multi-generation compute, memory, and interconnect roadmaps

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence