Senior Hardware Compute Architect (f/m/d)

Black Semiconductor GmbH; Aachen; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Insurance

Pension

Stock options

Health & well-being support

Zusammenfassung

Black Semiconductor GmbH in Aachen, Germany seeks a Senior Hardware Compute Architect to define a hybrid compute engine and its data fabric. You will work with software teams to map workloads to electronic or photonic paths, and you will shape interconnects and system-level trade-offs before silicon is implemented.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in compute hardware architecture, strong interconnect expertise (UCIe/CXL/NVLink-class), and a track record of cross‑disciplinary collaboration

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years designing compute hardware architecture at the SoC or system level.
• Experience with heterogeneous computing, accelerators, or AI accelerators.
• Strong expertise in interconnects and data fabrics (UCIe, CXL, NVLink).

Aufgaben

• Define the hardware architecture of a hybrid compute engine.
• Architect the system data fabric and interconnect infrastructure.
• Partner with the Software Compute Architect on interfaces and workload mapping.
• Evaluate architectural options via quantitative modeling for performance, power, area, and scalability.
• Collaborate with photonics, RTL, physical design, and packaging teams to translate primitives into architectures.
• Own the architecture specification through sign-off and cross-team alignment.

Kenntnisse

Compute architecture

Interconnect design

Performance modeling

System collaboration

Heterogeneous compute

RTL/SystemC/Python/C++

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's in EE/CE/CS

Tools

SystemC

RTL design

Python

C++

Modeling tools

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Hardware Compute Architect

Responsibilities

• Define the hardware architecture of a hybrid compute engine, including execution units (scalar, vector, tensor/matrix), memory hierarchy, memory tiering strategies, and the interfaces required to enable cooperation between electronic and photonic compute domains.
• Architect the system data fabric and interconnect infrastructure, including bandwidth, latency, coherency, and die‑to‑die communication requirements using technologies such as UCIe-class links, CXL, UALink, and NVLink-class fabrics.
• Partner with the Software Compute Architect to define hardware/software interfaces and workload mapping strategies, determining when operations should execute through electronic versus photonic compute paths.
• Evaluate architectural options through quantitative modeling, analyzing performance, power, area, and scalability trade‑offs to guide system‑level decisions before silicon implementation.
• Collaborate with photonics architecture, circuit design, RTL, physical design, and packaging teams to translate compute primitives into implementable system‑level architectures.
• Own the hardware architecture specification through sign‑off, ensuring alignment between system requirements and downstream implementation teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing compute hardware architecture at the SoC or system level, ideally involving heterogeneous computing, accelerators, or specialized compute architectures.
• Deep expertise in compute architecture, including execution units (scalar, vector, tensor/matrix), workload mapping, memory hierarchy, and system‑level architecture trade‑offs.
• Strong experience architecting high‑performance interconnects, data fabrics, and heterogeneous compute systems, including technologies such as UCIe, CXL, UALink, NVLink‑class, or comparable architectures.
• Experience with architectural modeling and quantitative analysis of performance, power, area, and system scalability to guide hardware architecture decisions.
• Proven ability to collaborate across hardware and software teams to define interfaces, requirements, and system‑level design decisions.
• Experience with architecture modeling and simulation tools, interconnect protocols, and system design workflows, including performance/power modeling environments, CXL, UALink, NVLink‑class fabrics, UCIe, Python, C++, SystemC, and architecture specification tools used to develop implementable designs for RTL, physical design, and packaging teams.
• Familiarity with photonic or optical compute concepts and their integration with electronic compute architectures will be considered a plus.
• Experience with heterogeneous compute architectures involving GPUs, DPUs, FPGAs, custom accelerators, or AI accelerator platforms will be considered a plus.
• Experience contributing to industry interconnect standards such as CXL Consortium, UALink, or UCIe Consortium will be considered a plus.

Benefits

Your Health and Future Matter. Your well‑being is paramount. We offer a comprehensive benefits package with outstanding insurance, pension and virtual stock options for your mental, physical, and financial health. Your peace of mind is our priority – in the present and future.

We encourage qualified individuals from any background to apply.