AI Solution Architecture Director
About The Position
SK hynix America is hiring an AI Solution Architecture Director to bridge evolving customer AI workloads with memory and storage requirements through quantitative comparisons. The role secures local expertise in architecture design, analysis, modeling, and technical alignment across HBF validation and Path Finding. This is a full-time, onsite position based in San Jose, California. The director leads architecture reviews, scenario development, and trace analysis; defines requirements; evaluates trace data; and analyzes modeling errors. The role also delivers and maintains version-controlled architecture documentation and evaluates signal integrity, power integrity, optical interconnect, and advanced packaging requirements for next-generation AI memory architectures. The position analyzes bandwidth, latency, power, and signal integrity trade-offs across memory, interconnect, and packaging solutions.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of LLM pre-training and post-training (SFT, RL), AI inference/serving, memory/storage hierarchies, data movement, and bottleneck analysis.
- Ability to translate AI system requirements into hardware/software architecture decisions and ARD (Architecture Requirement Documentation) traceability.
- Experience in Agentic AI/inference workload analysis, including tokens, context, KV cache, weights, activations, and trace/profiling.
- Proficiency in analytical and system modeling, statistical methods, Python-based analysis, and prediction/validation error analysis.
- Expertise in SI/PI, high-speed interfaces, and signal/power integrity analysis for AI and memory systems.
- Knowledge of optical interconnects and advanced packaging technologies, including 2.5D/3D integration and chiplet architectures.
Responsibilities
- Lead Architecture Reviews (for ARD), scenario development, and trace analysis.
- Define requirements, evaluate trace data, and analyze modeling errors.
- Deliver and maintain version-controlled ARD Traceability Matrix, Workload Catalog, Trace Manifest, and Model/Parameter Sheets.
- Evaluate SI/PI, optical interconnect, and advanced packaging requirements for next-generation AI memory architectures.
- Analyze bandwidth, latency, power, and signal integrity trade-offs across memory, interconnect, and packaging solutions.
- Translate AI system requirements into hardware/software architecture decisions and ARD traceability.
Benefits
- Top-tier health insurance at no employee cost.
- Paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, and Happy Fridays.
- 401(k) matching.
- Flexible Spending Account for health care and dependent care.
- Educational reimbursement up to $10,000 per year.
- Donation matching and volunteering opportunities.
- Corporate discount programs.
- Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided to employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
