About the role
The ASIC Chip Design Lead guides hardware development targeting infrastructure solutions for AI data centers. The role focuses on innovations across silicon, packaging, and systems to address communication bottlenecks in training and inference workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead ASIC chip design and development efforts spanning silicon and packaging integrations.
- Architect hardware solutions designed to address communication bottlenecks and improve GPU utilization.
- Collaborate with systems and software teams to deliver infrastructure solutions for AI data centers.
- Interface with silicon and packaging supply chain partners to support execution and delivery.
What you'll need
- Experience in ASIC chip design and development execution.
- Background working across silicon, packaging, and systems architecture.
- Experience delivering hardware solutions for AI data centers or high-performance compute environments.
Skills: AI data centers, silicon, packaging, software, systems, chip architecture
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This role has been open 221 days — well above the 79-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
485
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Median days open
79 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$230k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Eridu AI | All employers we track in this specialty (485 roles · 67 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 485 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 5 | 3525 · 120 employers |
| Median days open | 221 d | 79 d (+142 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: AI data centers, silicon, packaging, software, systems, chip architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 78 open roles · median 88 d
- NVIDIA · 67 open roles · median 81 d
- AMD · 39 open roles · median 68 d
- Arm Holdings · 29 open roles · median 11 d
- Apple · 28 open roles · median 12 d
- Micron Technology · 20 open roles · median 111 d
How we counted: 485 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 67 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 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.