ASIC Architect, Principal (AI Inference)

Positron Corporation

8d • $200,000 - $300,000 • Remote

About The Position

We're looking for an exceptional Principal ASIC Architect to help define the future of AI inference hardware. You will collaborate across architecture, software, machine learning, systems, and silicon implementation to design next-generation AI accelerators capable of serving rapidly evolving frontier models. This role requires exceptional technical breadth, balancing mathematical understanding, ML trends, systems architecture, and practical silicon implementation. This may be the single most important technical hire after the Chief Architect.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in ASIC architecture.
• Deep expertise in AI accelerator design and high-performance SoCs.
• Hands-on experience building performance models for memory systems and interconnects.
• Strong hardware/software co-design ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with GPU architecture.
• A solid grasp of ML systems, distributed inference, and large-scale serving.
• Deep knowledge of transformer internals.
• Compiler experience.
• A track record of research publications.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural exploration across the evolving landscape of transformer models, MoE, sparse models, and long-context inference.
• Evaluate emerging techniques including speculative decoding, continuous batching, KV-cache evolution, sub-quadratic and linear attention, and state-space models.
• Assess memory architectures, communication architectures, and interconnects for next-generation accelerators.
• Develop analytical models and build simulation frameworks to evaluate architectural tradeoffs.
• Estimate latency, throughput, bandwidth, memory and compute utilization, scaling efficiency, power, area, and cost.
• Partner closely with compiler, runtime, system software, firmware, ASIC engineering, and ML research teams to align hardware direction with real workload needs.
• Develop architecture documents and define subsystem interfaces.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across competing architectural directions and guide the future product roadmap.
• Track new LLMs, reasoning models, research papers, hardware competitors, academic research, and emerging algorithms to keep Positron's architecture ahead of the field.
• Use AI to accelerate research, performance analysis, architecture exploration, simulation generation, and documentation.

Benefits

• Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options to add more
• Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
• Unlimited paid time off
• 13 paid company holidays
• Remote-first culture with a company-provided computer and home office setup
• Competitive salary and equity
• 401(k) with company matching, eligible from day one

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed