Senior Principal NPU Architect

Senior Principal NPU Architect

About the Role

We are seeking a
Senior Principal NPU Architect
to define the architecture of next-generation AI accelerators for high-performance and power-efficient autonomous driving NPU. You will drive architecture decisions across compute, memory hierarchy, interconnect, dataflow, and software co-design, enabling competitive performance for modern AI workloads such as CNNs, Transformers, multimodal models, and LLM inference.

Key Responsibilities

• Define NPU architecture and key design directions for compute, memory, interconnect, and execution model.
• Analyze AI workloads and translate them into architecture requirements and trade-offs.
• Drive architecture modeling, bottleneck analysis, and architecture exploration.
• Partner with compiler, runtime, and algorithm teams on hardware/software co-design.
• Guide architectural optimization for performance, power, area, and scalability.
• Work with RTL, verification, and software teams to ensure successful implementation.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in EE, CE, CS, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in NPU, GPU, CPU, ASIC, or computer architecture.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML workloads, memory systems, parallel processing, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience in architecture definition, modeling, and hardware/software co-design.
• Familiarity with low-precision computing and quantization, such as INT8, FP16, BF16, or FP8.
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI accelerators for edge AI, datacenter AI, or autonomous driving.
• Familiarity with AI compiler/runtime stacks and workload mapping.
• Track record of architectural innovation, silicon delivery, or published technical contributions.