Senior SoC Architect for AI-Driven Hardware

Voltai; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Voltai in California is seeking an experienced SoC architecture leader to define the architecture and microarchitecture for complex SoCs and IP blocks, guiding performance, power, and area trade‑offs from requirements through RTL handoff.

You will collaborate with RTL, verification, and physical design teams, work with ML researchers on architecture exploration, and engage directly with customers to translate product requirements into silicon.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SoC, CPU, GPU, accelerator, or networking architecture.
• Track record of taking architectures from spec to tapeout.
• Strong performance modeling skills (C++, SystemC, Python, or equivalent).
• Deep understanding of memory systems, interconnects, cache coherence, and PPA trade‑offs.
• Clear technical writing and the ability to lead reviews across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and microarchitecture for SoCs, subsystems, and IP blocks, from requirements through specification.
• Build performance, power, and area models to drive trade‑off decisions before RTL is written.
• Define memory hierarchies, interconnects, and interfaces, and lead architecture reviews.
• Write specifications that RTL, verification, and physical design teams can execute against.
• Partner with ML researchers to teach models how expert architects reason about design trade‑offs, and evaluate the architectures they propose.
• Work directly with customers to translate their product requirements into silicon.

Skills

C++

SystemC

Python

Job description

Voltai in California is seeking an experienced SoC architecture leader to define the architecture and microarchitecture for complex SoCs and IP blocks, guiding performance, power, and area trade‑offs from requirements through RTL handoff.

You will collaborate with RTL, verification, and physical design teams, work with ML researchers on architecture exploration, and engage directly with customers to translate product requirements into silicon.