Senior NPU Architect for Next-Gen SoCs

Samsung Research America (SRA); Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 243,000 - 377,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Research America (SRA) is seeking a NPU Architect to lead architectural exploration and drive features for next-generation SOCs. You will own performance, power, and area tradeoffs across NPU sub-systems, interfacing with HW and SW teams and leadership.

The role emphasizes machine learning workloads, feature definition and performance modeling, with a hands-on leadership approach across multiple teams and domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD in Electrical, CS or related field.
• 16+ years of experience in NPU architecture & development.
• Hands on experience in developing cycle accurate performance and functional models.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in CNN and LLM models.
• Proficient in Python, SystemC and/or C++.
• Experience in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX).
• Experience in micro architecture of SoC, interface subsystems, logic modules.
• Self-motivated problem-solver with an ability to work well in a team.

Responsibilities

• Propose innovative NPU architectural and micro-architectural features to boost PPA on workloads for next generation SOCs.
• Perform high-level performance modeling/simulation and analysis of NPU features, applications, benchmarks, and complex use cases.
• Develop cycle accurate and analytical NPU performance model and correlate with silicon.
• Deliver architecture/microarchitecture proposals and specifications to the design team and articulate them clearly to hardware, software engineers and leadership.
• Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and performance simulation results for architecture and microarchitectural optimizations.
• Map AI use cases to NPU.
• Co-design of SW and HW to develop new architectures for low power and high performance.
• Collaborate across teams to bring architecture proposals to fruition across SOC, Driver, OS and System.

Skills

NPU architecture

Python

SystemC/C++

CNN/LLM models

ML frameworks

SoC micro-architecture

HW-SW co-design

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Electrical/CS or related

Tools

Python

SystemC/C++

Job description

Samsung Research America (SRA) is seeking a NPU Architect to lead architectural exploration and drive features for next-generation SOCs. You will own performance, power, and area tradeoffs across NPU sub-systems, interfacing with HW and SW teams and leadership.

The role emphasizes machine learning workloads, feature definition and performance modeling, with a hands-on leadership approach across multiple teams and domains.