Lead SoC Architect (Semiconductor)

Location: On-site in Sunnyvale, California; must be local to the Bay Area.

Compensation: $275,000–$360,000 per year in California.

Company

hirify.global is a semiconductor startup building high-performance, energy-efficient graphics processors for immersive content creation and consumption.

What you will do

• Define top-level SoC architectures and partition complex semiconductor products into subsystems.
• Lead tradeoff analysis across performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
• Develop architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
• Model performance and workloads, identify bottlenecks, and define memory hierarchy, NoC, coherency, and cache strategies.
• Evaluate and integrate CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security IP.
• Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and systems teams through validation, silicon bring-up, debugging, and optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
• Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures, subsystem integration, RTL development, and verification methodologies.
• Experience with CPU/GPU/NPU architectures, NoC/interconnects, cache coherency protocols, high-speed interfaces, memory systems, or power and performance optimization.
• Experience with architecture modeling and performance analysis tools, plus familiarity with firmware and software interaction in complex SoC systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, with willingness to contribute as an individual contributor while leading others.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI accelerators, GPU, networking, RISC-V, or datacenter SoC architectures.
• Experience with chiplet-based or multi-die architectures, advanced process technologies, and package integration.
• Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, and system-level validation.
• Knowledge of Linux drivers, runtime software, or system software architecture.
• Prior technical leadership across cross-functional engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• First-principles approach to problem-solving and a mission focused on reducing barriers to immersive content creation.
• Inclusive culture centered on professionalism, integrity, respect, fearlessness, adaptability, and collaboration.
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums fully covered.
• Stock options and 401(k) matching.
• Work-from-home hardware provided.