Sr Principal Engineer, NPU Architecture
Core
Define and lead the architectural vision, hardware-software co-design strategy, and technical roadmap for next-generation Neural Processing Units (NPUs) for automotive high-performance compute platforms.
Role type
Sr Principal NPU Architect (Hardware/Software Co-design)
Builds
Next-gen NPU architectures for automotive inference, edge AI, generative AI, and autonomous driving
Domain
Semiconductor / AI Accelerators / Automotive HPC
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AI accelerator architecture, system-level design, memory hierarchy design, interconnect architecture, performance modeling, C++, hardware-software co-design, ISO 26262 functional safety, virtualization, NoC design, compiler-aware architecture
Preferred skills
Automotive AI/ADAS platform experience, NVIDIA/Qualcomm/AMD/Arm ecosystem experience, industry standards/patents/publications
Technologies
SystemC, TLM, AXI, ACE, CHI, MLIR, ONNX, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLVM, C++
