AI Solution Architecture Director
$250,000 - $320,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The AI Solution Architecture Director bridges evolving customer AI workloads with memory and storage requirements through architecture design, modeling, and technical alignment. The position focuses on technical alignment across HBF validation and pathfinding in San Jose, CA.
What you'll do
- Lead Architecture Reviews (ARD), scenario development, and trace analysis.
- Define system requirements, evaluate trace data, and analyze modeling errors.
- Deliver ARD Traceability Matrices, Workload Catalogs, Trace Manifests, and Model/Parameter Sheets under version control.
- Evaluate SI/PI, optical interconnect, and advanced packaging requirements for AI memory architectures.
- Analyze bandwidth, latency, power, and signal integrity trade-offs across memory, interconnect, and packaging solutions.
What you'll need
- Understanding of LLM pre-training/post-training (SFT, RL), AI inference/serving, memory/storage hierarchies, data movement, and bottleneck analysis.
- Ability to translate AI system requirements into HW/SW architecture decisions and Architecture Requirement Documentation (ARD) traceability.
- Experience in Agentic AI and inference workload analysis, including Token, Context, KV Cache, Weights, Activations, and Trace/Profiling.
- Proficiency in analytical/system modeling, statistical methods, Python-based analysis, and prediction/validation error analysis.
- Expertise in SI/PI, high-speed interfaces, and signal/power integrity analysis for AI and memory systems.
- Knowledge of optical interconnects and advanced packaging technologies, including 2.5D/3D integration and chiplet architectures.
Skills: AI inference, memory architectures, LLM, interconnect, 2.5D/3D packaging
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 213-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
34
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Median days open
213 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$257k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SK Hynix America | All employers we track in this specialty (34 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 34 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 2 | 3531 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 213 d (−213 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $257k |
Skills observed across this category: AI inference, memory architectures, LLM, interconnect, 2.5D/3D packaging
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 8 open roles · median 212 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 214 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 213 d
- SiFive · 3 open roles · median 211 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 187 d
- Infineon Technologies · 2 open roles · median 208 d
How we counted: 34 open SoC/Chip Architecture (AI ML Hardware) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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 — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.