Senior AI Hardware Systems Architect

Meta; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Hardware Systems Architect for its Superintelligence Labs to lead architecture across consumer AI hardware products, shaping roadmaps and guiding prototypes from concept to mass production. You will converge complex subsystems—compute, displays, sensors, and I/O—while communicating strategy across engineering, partnerships, and product teams.

The role requires a broad engineering background and a track record in rapid prototyping, concept validation, and delivering high-impact

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with product experience in electrical/systems/computer engineering
• 12+ years of architecture definition/systems engineering across electrical, silicon, firmware, audio, sensors, wireless, displays, and optical systems
• Fundamentals of computer architecture
• Experience with rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept models
• Experience communicating with Product Development engineers, PMs, and cross-functional teams
• Experience working with partnerships and external suppliers at product level
• Experience transitioning concepts from prototype to high-volume consumer products

Responsibilities

• Define and converge platform system architectures across multiple subsystems (compute/memory, displays/optics, sensors, audio, wireless, I/O, firmware) from concept to prototyping and mass production
• Collaborate with system architects and software teams to document workload requirements and select/define suitable compute silicon with HW accelerators
• Maintain detailed workload specifications and assumptions for clear cross-team alignment
• Conduct workload profiling to assess resource utilization on target compute platforms
• Perform detailed analyses and trade-off studies to inform architecture decisions
• Deliver engineering solutions for high-impact architectural problems early in concept development
• Communicate technology and product strategy to internal and external stakeholders
• Guide management and partner teams on long-term technology investments
• Create hardware system metrics, standards, and tools
• Drive system requirements for new AR/AI experiences and research roadmaps
• Travel up to 20% domestically and internationally

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Prototyping

System architecture

Technical communication

SoC evaluation

AI integration

Power modeling

Hardware-software co-design

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering

M.S./Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering

Job description

Meta is seeking a Hardware Systems Architect for its Superintelligence Labs to lead architecture across consumer AI hardware products, shaping roadmaps and guiding prototypes from concept to mass production. You will converge complex subsystems—compute, displays, sensors, and I/O—while communicating strategy across engineering, partnerships, and product teams.

The role requires a broad engineering background and a track record in rapid prototyping, concept validation, and delivering high-impact