AI SoC Hardware Architect

Job Overview

Grow with us 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 The Problem Nobody Else Is Solving Most chip programs are full of brilliant people who never quite speak the same language.

Job Description

Researchers build ambitious AI models. Silicon teams build powerful hardware. Infrastructure teams wire it all together.

And somewhere in the space between those three worlds - in the handoffs, the assumption gaps, the untranslated requirements - massive performance dies quietly on the floor. We're not hiring someone to manage that problem.

We're hiring the person who architects it out of existence.

This is not a support role. This is not a liaison role.

This is the highest-leverage engineering seat in the building - the person who looks at a next-generation LLM, a multimodal inference pipeline, or a signal processing workload and answers the question that determines whether a chip program succeeds or settles: "Here's exactly what this workload needs from silicon - and here's the proof it will work before we ever tape out.

" Your decisions won't live in documents. They'll be etched into hardware. Your performance models will guide compute investments. Your architectural direction will shape memory hierarchies.

Key Responsibilities

• Location: Austin, TX Team: Cross-functional leadership across Model Engineering, AI Infrastructure, and Silicon Architecture The Problem Nobody Else Is Solving Most chip programs are full of brilliant people who never quite speak the same language.
• Researchers build ambitious AI models.
• Silicon teams build powerful hardware.
• We're not hiring someone to manage that problem.
• The Role As Principal AI Hardware Architect, you will own the most consequential technical contract in the company: the binding agreement between what AI workloads demand, what software systems can express, and what custom silicon can physically deliver.
• This is not a support role.
• This is the highest-leverage engineering seat in the building - the person who looks at a next-generation LLM, a multimodal inference pipeline, or a signal processing workload and answers the question that determines whether a chip program succeeds or settles: "Here's exactly what this workload needs from silicon - and here's the proof it will work before we ever tape out." Your decisions won't live in documents.
• Your cross-team alignment will determine whether the company builds capable hardware - or hardware nobody else can touch.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Required Qualifications 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 Strongly Preferred Experience with custom silicon, accelerators, or advanced hardware platforms Prior involvement in ISA definition, memory hierarchy design, or accelerator roadmap decisions Why This Seat Matters Capable hardware gets built every year.
• Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets.
• They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.
• Your Pay The salary range for this position is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

Benefits and Perks

• Primary country and city: USA || Austin, Texas Job details: Developer Primary Recruiter: Jim Everett Compensation and Benefits at Ericsson At Ericsson, we know that our people are the key to our success.
• LOCATION: Austin, Texas Your Health Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of three medical plan options and a dental plan option that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs.
• The Ericsson US 401(k) Plan offers an automatic 3% company contribution and Ericsson match $1 for every $1 you put into the 401(k) Plan on the first 3% of your eligible pay, plus 50 cents on every $1 on the next 2% of eligible pay.
• Employees will also receive company credits in an amount equal to the cost of basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage, as well as short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• New employees are provided a minimum of 15 days of accrued vacation, up to 3 personal days per year, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually.
• Additional Benefits Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, and recognition programs.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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