Data Center AI SoC & System Architect - Qualcomm - Grenoble, France
Originally posted 19 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Qualcomm's Data Center AI Architecture team defines cloud AI system-on-chip (SoC) architectures and complete data center systems tailored for generative AI inference workloads. The position focuses on shaping architectures for AI accelerators, memory subsystems, and platform scalability.
What you'll do
- Partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, and platform teams to establish system specifications.
- Translate product and workload requirements into SoC feature sets for technology, IP, platform, and software teams.
- Execute SoC and system architecture studies, quantifying performance, power, area, cost, memory bandwidth, network topology, and scalability tradeoffs.
- Correlate observed system performance with analytical models and simulators, isolate hardware and software bottlenecks, and drive performance closure through production.
- Perform competitive analysis across SoC, platform, compute, memory, data center networking, and software deployments.
- Support and mentor technical contributors while developing technical innovations and patents.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience in SoC, platform, or system architecture, AI accelerators, memory architecture, or memory technologies.
- Computer and system architecture background covering processors, accelerators, memory systems, data center network fabrics, interconnects, or hardware/software interfaces.
- Experience executing quantitative SoC, system, and competitive studies using high-level calculators, spreadsheets, analytical models, profilers, or simulators.
- Experience developing architecture methodologies, tools, and analysis frameworks to drive recommendations.
- Hands-on programming ability with languages such as C, C++, or Python for architecture modeling and automation.
Nice to have
- Understanding of generative AI and machine learning workloads, including Large Language Model inference bottlenecks.
- Experience in processor or accelerator architecture, ISA design, microarchitecture, performance modeling, scale-up or scale-out networks, or hardware/software co-design.
- Knowledge of DRAM and memory-controller architecture, bandwidth, latency, power tradeoffs, and protocols such as LPDDR, HBM, DDR, or GDDR, plus processing-in-memory or 3D integration.
- Familiarity with data center SoC technologies including RAS, ECC, Ethernet, InfiniBand, RDMA, network interface controllers, switches, congestion control, chiplets, PHYs, advanced packaging, or platform management.
Skills: AI SoC, system architect, AI accelerators, memory architecture, data center
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This role has been open 11 days — well below the 90-day median for AI/ML Hardware Engineering roles.
AI/ML Hardware Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
490
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Median days open
90 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (490 roles · 77 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 95 | 490 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 688 | 6243 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 121 d | 90 d (+31 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI SoC, system architect, AI accelerators, memory architecture, data center
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 95 open roles · median 121 d
- NVIDIA · 88 open roles · median 65 d
- AMD · 32 open roles · median 113 d
- Micron Technology · 20 open roles · median 85 d
- Mobileye · 19 open roles · median 88 d
- Analog Devices · 15 open roles · median 48 d
How we counted: 490 open AI/ML Hardware Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 77 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 Oct 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 Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.