Chip Architect

The role

You will define the architecture of complex SoCs and subsystems from performance models to specifications. You will work on real silicon programs and partner with ML researchers to teach models how architects reason about design trade-offs.

What you will do

• Own architecture and microarchitecture for SoCs, subsystems, and IP blocks, from requirements through specification.
• Build performance, power, and area models to drive trade-off decisions before RTL is written.
• Define memory hierarchies, interconnects, and interfaces, and lead architecture reviews.
• Write specifications that RTL, verification, and physical design teams can execute against.
• Partner with ML researchers to teach models how expert architects reason about design trade-offs, and evaluate the architectures they propose.
• Work directly with customers to translate their product requirements into silicon.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SoC, CPU, GPU, accelerator, or networking architecture.
• Track record of taking architectures from spec to tapeout.
• Strong performance modeling skills (C++, SystemC, Python, or equivalent).
• Deep understanding of memory systems, interconnects, cache coherence, and PPA trade-offs.
• Clear technical writing and the ability to lead reviews across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML accelerators or chiplet-based designs.
• Hardware/software co-design experience.
• Interest in how AI can change architecture exploration.

About the company

Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. The company is starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.