Chief Architect

Architect Labs • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

Architect is a frontier AI lab for custom silicon, partnering with frontier labs, clouds and neoclouds, physical AI companies, and advanced fabs to tape out custom chips co-designed for next-generation AI workloads. Its goal is to compress end-to-end software-to-silicon timelines and maximize intelligence per watt and per dollar. The team spans silicon, systems, software, and frontier AI, with experience leading research teams at frontier AI labs and work on complex SoCs.

The Chief Architect will define the architectural vision for new generations of AI compute silicon and reinvent how architectures are discovered, explored, and co-optimized with AI. The role owns critical decisions across compute, memory, interconnect, and hardware-software co-design. It will build an automated architecture-search pipeline connecting workload analysis, design-space exploration, performance modeling, and PPA feedback to uncover architectures that conventional methods might miss. The Chief Architect will partner closely with ASIC and software leaders to bring promising ideas to silicon and personally own challenging tradeoffs.

Requirements

• Seasoned architect and technical leader, or equivalent, who has defined and shipped multiple industry-leading CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, or complex SoCs.
• Deep command of computer architecture, performance modeling, memory systems, interconnects, power/performance/area tradeoffs, and software-hardware co-design.
• A record of architectural decisions that materially improved performance, efficiency, scalability, or product competitiveness in deployed silicon.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, simplify complex systems, mentor engineers, and lead through technical credibility.
• Comfort moving from first-principles exploration to detailed engineering decisions in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.

Responsibilities

• Define the architectural vision for new generations of AI compute silicon.
• Reinvent how architectures are discovered, explored, and co-optimized with AI.
• Own critical decisions across compute, memory, interconnect, and hardware-software co-design.
• Build an architecture-search pipeline connecting workload analysis, design-space exploration, performance modeling, and PPA feedback.
• Partner with ASIC and software leaders to turn promising ideas into silicon.
• Take hands-on ownership of difficult architectural tradeoffs.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Extraordinary technical ownership
• Opportunity to shape foundational computing systems alongside a small, exceptional team

What This Job Offers

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