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About the Role

As Principal AI Hardware Architect, you will own the technical contract between AI workload demands, software system capabilities, and custom silicon delivery. This high-leverage role involves analyzing workloads, translating them into hardware requirements, and ensuring silicon programs succeed by proving feasibility before tape-out. Your decisions will directly shape hardware, guide compute investments, and define memory hierarchies.

Responsibilities

Translate workload-specific test cases for real-world applications (LLMs, multimodal systems, signal processing, inference engines) into concrete hardware requirements.
Act as a bridge between model engineering, AI infrastructure, and silicon architecture teams to ensure hardware investments are architecturally sound and software-accessible.
Develop and utilize analytical, simulation, and cycle-approximate performance models to shape architecture, guide compute investments, and inform memory hierarchy decisions.
Profile real workloads on current and future platforms to identify bottlenecks in memory, compute, scheduling, and architecture, feeding findings into hardware and software cycles.
Translate technical concepts across hardware architects, AI researchers, and infrastructure teams, grounding product decisions in workload analysis, constraints, and execution paths.

Requirements

12+ years of industry experience across AI, systems, or silicon.
Proven experience at the intersection of hardware and intelligent compute systems.
Hardware/software co-design leadership across full product cycles.
Demonstrated performance modeling expertise (analytical, simulation, or cycle-approximate).
Track record of influencing architectural and product decisions across multiple technical organizations.
Exceptional written communication and technical specification ability.
Strong Python and C++ skills.
Experience with custom silicon, accelerators, or advanced hardware platforms (preferred).
Prior involvement in ISA definition, memory hierarchy design, or accelerator roadmap decisions (preferred).

Skills

AI/ML Systems Depth (inference systems, quantization strategies, deployment constraints, silicon utilization)
Silicon Architecture Fluency (processor, accelerator, custom silicon architectures, compute pipelines, memory hierarchies, on-chip interconnects, performance tradeoff analysis)
Python
C++

Location

Austin, TX
USA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

12+ years of industry experience

Salary/Compensations

Salary range is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

Benefits

Choice of three medical plan options
Dental plan option
Company credits towards medical and dental premiums
401(k) Plan with automatic 3% company contribution
Company match for 401(k) contributions (dollar for dollar on first 3%, 50 cents on next 2%)
Company credits for basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage
Company credits for short-term and long-term disability coverage
Optional participation in Stock Purchase Plan
Minimum of 15 days of accrued vacation
Up to 3 personal days per year
11 annual holidays
8 hours of volunteer time
80 hours of sick time annually
Up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave
6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% pay
Financial wellness programs
Educational assistance
Matching gifts
Recognition programs

About the Company

Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets.
Ericsson believes a diverse approach drives innovation, which is essential for future growth.
Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.

Equal Opportunity

Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer, learn more.
Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets.
We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team.