Senior SoC Architect: Bridge AI, Software & Silicon

Ericsson GmbH; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson in Austin, Texas seeks a Principal SoC Hardware Architect to own the binding between AI workloads and custom silicon. This role requires deep expertise in AI inference, memory hierarchies, and hardware–software co-design to ensure feasibility before tape-out.

You will bridge model engineering, AI infrastructure, and silicon teams so every major hardware investment is architecturally sound and software-accessible, guiding compute investments and architecture choices.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience across AI, systems, or silicon.
• Experience at the intersection of hardware and intelligent compute systems.
• Hardware/software co-design leadership across full product cycles.
• Demonstrated performance modeling expertise — analytical, simulation, or cycle-approximate.
• Track record of influencing architectural and product decisions across multiple technical organizations.
• Exceptional written communication and technical specification ability.
• Strong Python and C++ skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze workload specific testcases tailored to real-world applications and translate them into concrete hardware requirements.
• You connect model engineering, AI infrastructure, and silicon architecture teams so major hardware investments are architecturally sound and software-accessible.
• When workload ambition outpaces hardware capability, you find the path forward.
• When silicon innovation creates a performance unlock, you ensure the software stack can reach it.

Skills

Python

C++

Job description

Ericsson in Austin, Texas seeks a Principal SoC Hardware Architect to own the binding between AI workloads and custom silicon. This role requires deep expertise in AI inference, memory hierarchies, and hardware–software co-design to ensure feasibility before tape-out.

You will bridge model engineering, AI infrastructure, and silicon teams so every major hardware investment is architecturally sound and software-accessible, guiding compute investments and architecture choices.