AI Accelerator Compute Architect (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in the Mountain View, California office, with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday. Exceptional remote arrangements may be considered.

Salary: $120,000–$275,000 for early career, $175,000–$450,000 for mid career, or $275,000–$600,000 for senior career, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops vertically integrated hardware and software solutions, from silicon to systems, for training and running large AI models.

What you will do

• Define the compute architecture for next-generation GenAI accelerators, including ISA, connectivity, memories, and control.
• Derive architectural requirements from AI use cases and translate workloads into hardware architecture.
• Conduct analytical and empirical performance analysis.
• Collaborate with Research, Software, and Hardware teams to balance workloads, programmability, and PPA.
• Evaluate power, area, and performance tradeoffs with stakeholders.
• Support test plan reviews, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon debug.

Requirements

• Strong computer architecture background, especially in AI accelerators, GPUs, TPUs, vector processors, SIMD, VLIW, or other parallel compute architectures.
• Solid microarchitecture fundamentals and first-principles understanding of latency, throughput, utilization, and scalability.
• Experience translating workloads into hardware architecture.
• Familiarity with numeric formats, quantization, rounding, and precision-performance tradeoffs.
• Programming, code optimization, or kernel-level performance analysis experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience optimizing performance in large-scale transformer models.

Culture & Benefits

• Four weeks of accrued PTO, 12 company holidays, and up to three weeks of remote work.
• Company-subsidized medical, dental, vision, life, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• Retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to a 401(k).
• $1,500 annual professional development budget.
• Onsite weekday meals and fully covered daily commuting options.
• Paid parental leave, mental health benefits, and remote home-office setup support.