AR/AI Wearable SoC Architect – Vision & Power Optimizer

Meta; Redmond; On-site; AUD 253,000 - 356,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs is seeking an experienced SoC Architect to lead the architecture of AR/AI wearable chips. You will define top-level architecture for compute subsystems, memory hierarchy, and power delivery, guiding RTL and physical design teams.

You will collaborate with algorithms, firmware, and software groups to drive hardware-software co-design decisions, evaluate third-party IP, and contribute to long-term silicon roadmap planning for AR/VR applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in SoC architecture or system-level hardware design.
• Experience architecting heterogeneous SoCs including CPU, GPU, neural processing and hardware accelerators.
• Expertise with PCIe, USB and LPDDR interfaces.
• Memory subsystem architecture including cache hierarchy and DRAM interfacing.
• Experience collaborating across hardware, firmware and software for co-design.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SoC-level architecture for AR/AI wearable chips including compute subsystems and memory hierarchy.
• Lead architectural exploration and trade-off analysis across heterogeneous compute blocks.
• Collaborate with algorithms, firmware, and software teams to drive hardware-software co-design decisions.
• Partner with IP vendors, power and performance architects, IP architects, and design teams to evaluate IP blocks.
• Develop architectural specifications, interfaces, and design guidelines for RTL and physical design teams.
• Provide architectural leadership to silicon, systems and platform teams on wearable device programs.
• Contribute to long-term silicon roadmap planning by evaluating emerging process technologies and compute paradigms.

Skills

SoC architecture

Microarchitecture definition

System-level hardware design

Heterogeneous compute blocks

CPU/GPU/ML accelerators

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking an experienced SoC Architect to lead the architecture of AR/AI wearable chips. You will define top-level architecture for compute subsystems, memory hierarchy, and power delivery, guiding RTL and physical design teams.

You will collaborate with algorithms, firmware, and software groups to drive hardware-software co-design decisions, evaluate third-party IP, and contribute to long-term silicon roadmap planning for AR/VR applications.