AI Solution Architecture and Pathfinding Director
$250,000 USD yearly
Originally posted November 12, 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Translate customer workloads into memory and storage requirements while establishing local technical ownership in the U.S. Lead both HBF validation and architecture pathfinding initiatives in parallel across AI systems software and memory architecture teams.
What you'll do
- Define priorities for customer problems, workload architecture, and technical exploration, establishing common baselines and alignment through Architecture Requirement Documents (ARD).
- Lead joint exploration and validation with partner companies, including technical charter development, validation targets, and Gate management.
- Coordinate Memory Architecture, AI Systems Software, and Validation teams to integrate technical components, align partner validation activities, and facilitate HQ technology transfer.
- Lead team staffing, role assignments, budget management, and local technical decision-making, taking ownership of product approval and commercialization.
What you'll need
- Strong understanding of LLM pre-training/post-training (SFT, RL), AI inference/serving workloads, memory/storage hierarchies, and data movement bottlenecks.
- Proven experience leading AI architecture decisions, including performance-cost trade-offs, requirements definition, and validation.
- Ability to translate customer and partner requirements into actionable architectural specifications and organizational priorities.
Nice to have
- Experience leading AI system-memory solution initiatives from early exploration through joint validation, development, and production transition.
Skills: LLM, memory architecture, AI inference, architecture pathfinding, ARD
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First seen in our index 1 day ago, well below the 218-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
35
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Median days since first seen
218 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$261k
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| Metric | SK Hynix America | All employers we track in this specialty (35 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 35 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 3 | 3639 · 122 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 3 d | 218 d (+215 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $261k |
Skills observed across this category: LLM, memory architecture, AI inference, architecture pathfinding, ARD
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 217 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 219 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 218 d
- SiFive · 3 open roles · median 216 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 192 d
- Infineon Technologies · 2 open roles · median 213 d
How we counted: 35 open SoC/Chip Architecture (AI ML Hardware) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.