SoC Architect (AI)

Location: Palo Alto Office, USA

Company

hirify.global develops world models and agents for learning, evaluating, planning, experimenting, and interacting with the physical world, with an initial focus on hardware, electronics systems, and semiconductors.

What you will do

• Own architecture and microarchitecture for SoCs, subsystems, and IP blocks from requirements through specification.
• Build performance, power, and area models to support trade-off decisions before RTL implementation.
• Define memory hierarchies, interconnects, and interfaces, and lead architecture reviews.
• Write specifications for RTL, verification, and physical design teams.
• Partner with ML researchers to teach models expert architectural reasoning and evaluate proposed architectures.
• Work with customers to translate product requirements into silicon.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SoC, CPU, GPU, accelerator, or networking architecture.
• Demonstrated experience taking architectures from specification to tapeout.
• Strong performance modeling skills using C++, SystemC, Python, or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of memory systems, interconnects, cache coherence, and PPA trade-offs.
• Clear technical writing skills and the ability to lead reviews across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML accelerators or chiplet-based designs.
• Hardware/software co-design experience.
• Interest in how AI can change architecture exploration.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on real silicon programs with major semiconductor companies.
• Collaborate with ML researchers on AI-assisted architecture exploration.
• Join a team backed by Silicon Valley investors, Stanford University, and experienced semiconductor and technology leaders.