Principal Engineer, SoC NPU Architect

Mountain View, CAfull time

On Site

senior

$243k–$377k

H1B: no

Samsungresearchamerica The Principal Engineer, SoC NPU Architect leads architectural design and performance modeling of NPUs for next-generation SoCs. This role involves hands-on development of cycle-accurate models and collaboration across hardware and software teams to optimize AI workloads.

Responsibilities

Propose innovative NPU architectural and micro-architectural features to boost performance, power, and area
Perform high-level performance modeling, simulation, and analysis of NPU features and workloads
Develop cycle accurate and analytical NPU performance models and correlate with silicon
Deliver architecture and microarchitecture proposals and specifications to design teams
Analyze benchmarks, application workloads, and simulation results for optimizations
Map AI use cases to NPU
Optimize and co-design software and hardware for low power and high performance
Collaborate across teams to implement architecture proposals through documentation

Qualification

Bachelor’sProficient programming skills in PythonExperience in ML frameworks (TensorFlowExperience in micro architecture of SoCSpecial Attributes

Required

Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer Science, related Science or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
16+ years of experience in NPU architecture & development
Hands on experience in developing cycle accurate performance and functional models
Good knowledge and hands on experience in in CNN and LLM models
Proficient programming skills in Python, System C and/or C++
Experience in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX)
Experience in micro architecture of SoC, interface subsystems, logic modules
Self-motivated problem-solver with an ability to work well in a team
Special Attributes:
Experience in performance/power modeling using Platform Architect
Experience in mapping AI use cases to IPs
Experience with hardware memory managements units, prefetching or memory subsystems

Preferred

Experience in performance/power modeling using Platform Architect
Experience in mapping AI use cases to IPs
Experience with hardware memory management units and prefetch

Benefits

Annual Bonus

Company

Samsungresearchamerica

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10000+ employees

Consumer Electronics

Founded 1938

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