AI Phone - Hardware Platform / Mobile SoC Architect
About The Position
We are reimagining the phone to make AI proactive, intuitive, intelligent, and low cost. The mission is to build proactive applications and devices that bring intelligence into daily conversations, coordination, and workflows with minimal prompting, helping make intelligence accessible to people who use everyday applications such as email, messaging, notes, tasks, and calendars. The Mobile SoC Architect defines the hardware platform strategy and specifications for an AI-native phone, ensuring the selected hardware supports current and future AI capabilities. This is a strategic hardware role focused on evaluating hardware architectures, selecting SoCs and components, defining device specifications, and working with ODMs to translate product requirements into hardware designs.
Requirements
- Strong experience in smartphone hardware architecture, mobile SoC, or embedded hardware engineering.
- Deep understanding of mobile SoC architecture, including CPU, GPU, NPU, memory subsystem, and hardware acceleration.
- Experience evaluating and selecting smartphone hardware platforms.
- Understanding of power architecture, thermal management, battery performance, and hardware constraints.
- Experience defining hardware specifications and technical requirements for mobile devices.
- Experience working directly with ODM/OEM, chipset vendors, and hardware suppliers.
- Ability to translate product and AI requirements into concrete hardware specifications and platform decisions.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon or MediaTek Dimensity platforms.
- Experience with AI accelerator/NPU architecture and on-device AI workloads.
- Experience with smartphone hardware design and component selection.
- Experience with camera ISP, audio DSP, and sensor architecture.
- Experience taking a smartphone product from platform selection through mass production.
- Experience with custom hardware platforms or ODM product development.
Responsibilities
- Define the overall hardware platform strategy and roadmap for the phone.
- Evaluate and compare mobile SoC platforms, including Qualcomm, MediaTek, and other potential vendors.
- Define hardware specifications covering CPU, GPU, NPU, RAM, storage, memory bandwidth, and connectivity.
- Evaluate NPU capabilities, supported AI frameworks, compute performance, and memory constraints for on-device AI workloads.
- Define hardware requirements for AI-native features, including always-on hotword detection, camera and audio processing, background AI execution, and sensor integration.
- Evaluate power consumption, thermal performance, battery capacity, and sustained compute performance.
- Work with product and AI teams to translate future AI capabilities into hardware requirements.
- Assess whether existing commercial platforms can meet requirements or whether deeper hardware customization is necessary.
- Work directly with ODM/OEM and chipset vendors to review platform proposals, component selection, and technical feasibility.
- Review hardware architecture, component specifications, and design trade-offs proposed by ODMs.
- Identify opportunities for dedicated AI accelerators, low-power processing, and other hardware capabilities that could differentiate the device.
- Establish hardware validation criteria and ensure the selected platform has sufficient headroom for future software and AI capabilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
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