MemryX
Senior SoC Architect
Ann Arbor, MI · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- You will turn innovative ideas into reality by bridging the gap between software requirements and hardware implementation.
- By translating product and workload requirements into scalable system architectures, you will guide key technical decisions from early exploration through silicon bring-up, leading cross-functional efforts to deliver high-performance, power-efficient silicon solutions.
Responsibilities
- Specifications & Roadmaps: Own SoC architecture specifications and roadmaps. Author, review, and maintain comprehensive architectural and micro-architecture documents.
- Performance Modeling: Analyze target AI workloads, and develop performance models to guide architectural decisions and identify bottlenecks across hardware and software.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with RTL, verification, firmware, compiler, and application teams throughout the development lifecycle to translate product requirements into actionable engineering plans.
- Lifecycle Execution: Lead architecture reviews, document requirements, and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation. Support pre-silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, performance characterization, and optimization.
- 15+ years of industry experience in ASIC/SoC design, with at least 3+ years functioning in a lead architectural capacity.
- The Senior SoC Architect will define and drive the system-level architecture for our next- generation SoCs for AI and edge-computing applications.
- Specifications & Roadmaps: Own SoC architecture specifications and roadmaps.
- Author, review, and maintain comprehensive architectural and micro-architecture documents.
- Lifecycle Execution: Lead architecture reviews, document requirements, and ensure alignment between product goals and implementation.
- Support pre-silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, performance characterization, and optimization.
Requirements
- High adaptability and the energy required to thrive in the fast pace and ambiguity of a startup environment.
- Hands-on experience with performance modeling (e.g., C++, SystemC) and architectural simulation tools.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity grants, comprehensive health benefits, and more.
- Previous experience operating within a true startup mindset, demonstrating a strong desire for continuous learning.
- The benefits outlined below reflect MemryX's current benefits package for U.S.-based employees.
Company info
- MemryX Inc. is a semiconductor company focused on delivering high-performance, low-power AI accelerators for edge computing.
- Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company also operates existing engineering branches in Taipei and Hsinchu Taiwan, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Our unique compute-near-memory architecture minimizes data movement and enables massively parallel, scalable on-chip AI inference.
- We've co-designed a full hardware-software stack (compiler, runtime, and APIs) to make AI development both easy and high-performance.
- Powered by MemryX Compute Engines, our decentralized many-core dataflow design delivers industry-leading throughput and efficiency, ideal for smart edge devices.
- We are currently in production with our MX3 AI accelerator and actively developing next-generation MX4, backed by top-tier VCs.
- At MemryX, you'll join a collaborative, innovation-driven team that empowers you to shape the future of edge AI.
- Communicative & Collaborative: You're open, honest, and thrive on feedback.
- Curious & Innovative: You love brainstorming new ideas and turning them into reality.
- Tech-Driven: Passionate about advancing AI and edge computing.
- Adaptable: Energized by the fast pace and ambiguity of a startup environment.
- Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Hands-On Learning: Structured rotations across hardware and software domains.
- Innovative Culture: Rapid prototyping, continuous learning, and a true startup mindset.
This listing is sourced directly from MemryX's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.