Silicon Power Architect, Reality Labs

Meta; Sunnyvale, San Diego, Redmond, Austin (CA, CA, WA, TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Silicon Power Architect to lead next-generation wearables silicon design. You will oversee power estimation, partition hardware/software, and drive cross-disciplinary collaboration across hardware, software, and systems teams.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in production silicon, strong RTL and system-level power modeling skills, and experience guiding architecture trade-offs in evolving consumer electronics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent.
• 6+ years in production silicon with at least one product shipped.
• Experience partitioning solutions across hardware and software and multidisciplinary boundaries.
• Experience in technology node scaling and projections.
• Experience in custom IP block power estimates.
• Experience in low-power design across RTL, design, and system levels.
• Ability to evaluate performance, power, and area trade-offs.
• Experience debugging cross-disciplinary system issues.
• Experience collaborating and/or leading in a team.
• Familiarity with Synopsys Platform Architect or virtual prototyping tools is a plus.
• Experience driving technical workstreams across hardware, software, and systems teams.
• Experience using AI agents for power-tools results.
• Experience defining specifications for novel silicon architectures.
• Top-down high-level model to HW power modeling.
• Programming in C, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of next-generation silicon for wearables.
• Drive power estimation and convergence tool flows.
• Coordinate deliverables across hardware, software, and systems teams.
• Guide architectural trade-offs among performance, power, and area.

Skills

Low-power design

Power estimation

RTL power design

System power modeling

Hardware-software partitioning

Technology node scaling

Power IP estimation

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Synopsys Platform Architect

C/C++/Python

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or related field

MSEE or PhD equivalent

Tools

Synopsys Platform Architect

Job description

Reality Labs focuses on delivering Meta's vision through creating advanced AI-enabled wearables. The compute performance and power efficiency requirements of wearables require custom silicon. Reality Labs Silicon team is driving the driving the industry forward with innovative work in AI, augmented reality, computer vision, machine learning, graphics, displays, and sensors. Our chips will enable wearable devices where our real and virtual worlds will mix and match throughout the day. We believe the only way to achieve our goals is to look at the entire stack, from transistors, through architecture, firmware, and algorithms.

We are seeking a Silicon Power Architect to lead the development of next-generation silicon solutions for wearables. This role requires experience in low-power design techniques, power estimation, and convergence tool flows and management.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or electrical engineering or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience with production silicon including at least one product shipped
• Experience with methods for partitioning a solution across hardware and software, digital, and other multi-disciplinary boundaries in a system solution
• Experience in technology node scaling and projections
• Experience in custom IP block power estimates
• Experience of low power design principles across RTL, design and system level
• Experience in evaluating architectural trade-offs of performance, power, and area
• Experience employing scientific methods to debug, diagnose, and drive the resolution of cross-disciplinary system issues
• Experience collaborating and/or leading in a team environment
• Familiarity with high-level modeling tools like Synopsys Platform Architect or virtual prototyping tools is a plus
• Experience independently driving technical workstreams while coordinating deliverables across hardware, software, and systems teams
• Experience in using AI agents for managing power tools and extracting results
• Experience defining and scoping technical specifications for novel silicon architectures in consumer electronics where requirements are continuously evolving
• MSEE or PhD equivalent
• Experience in top down high-level-model to HW power modeling of system use cases
• Experience programming in C, C++, or Python
• Results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking skills