Hardware System Architecture Fellow - AI & Data Center Networking - CA, Santa Clara, United States
$249,200 - $427,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 May 2026 by the employer.
Architect end-to-end hardware systems across AI-NICs, DPUs, switches, and rack-scale networking platforms.
About the role
The Hardware System Architecture Fellow – AI & Data Center Networking defines and drives end-to-end hardware system architecture for AI and data center networking platforms. This role spans architecture definition, cross-domain trade-offs, and technical resolution across AI-NICs, DPUs, switches, and rack-scale networking solutions.
What you'll do
- Define system-level architecture for AI scale-out and scale-up networking platforms, translating product requirements into scalable hardware solutions. - Drive architectural decisions across chip-to-system boundaries, including interconnect topology, board and system partitioning, power delivery strategy, signal integrity constraints, and platform extensibility. - Serve as primary technical authority across ASIC, packaging, board design, optics, power, thermal, and mechanical integration. - Lead early-phase system feasibility analysis, proactively identifying risks, trade-offs, and technology inflection points. - Resolve complex bring-up, validation, and field issues, synthesizing cross-domain data to drive root-cause closure. - Establish system architecture best practices, review frameworks, and validation flows across NTSG.
What you'll need
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Deep expertise in system-level hardware architecture for networking, AI infrastructure, or data center platforms. - Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex hardware systems across multiple product generations. - Broad understanding of board design, power delivery, signal integrity, system validation, and high-speed bring-up. - Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, cross-domain problems with significant technical and business impact.
Nice to have
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Experience with AI scale-out networking systems, including AI-NICs, DPUs, or high-bandwidth switching platforms. - Familiarity with advanced interconnect and packaging technologies and their system-level implications. - Demonstrated enterprise-level technical influence, including architecture ownership or critical platform delivery. - Recognized industry or academic thought leadership, including publications, patents, or standards contributions.
Skills: AI networking platforms, system architecture, interconnect topology, board design, power delivery, signal integrity
This role has been open 170 days — well above the 112-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
92
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Median days open
112 d
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Median salary
$200k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (92 roles · 35 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 92 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 389 | 6277 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 131 d | 112 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $200k |
Skills observed across this category: AI networking platforms, system architecture, interconnect topology, board design, power delivery, signal integrity
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 14 open roles · median 53 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 199 d
- AMD (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 131 d
- Astera Labs · 4 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 4 open roles · median 14 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 152 d
How we counted: 92 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 35 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.