Server Product Architect (RISC-V) – Sr. Director - Santa Clara, California, United States of America
$284,900 - $427,300 USD yearly
Originally posted 17 August 2026 by the employer.
Define server product architecture for RISC-V.
About the role
This role defines the architecture for high-performance server products, specifically a server SoC, that meets demanding customer and data center requirements.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with chip and platform architects to define and develop product and SoC architecture.
- Develop server roadmap and feature set across architecture domains.
- Model and evaluate key server KPIs, including performance, power, area, cost, RAS, and related product trade-offs.
- Create detailed architecture specification documents that communicate product decisions and trade-offs to engineering teams.
- Communicate with senior engineers, architects, and technologists in a cross-functional product development environment.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years of hardware or systems engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in CPU server architecture.
- Experience architecting complex, high-performance, low-power designs at advanced process nodes.
- Extensive knowledge of RISC-V CPU and SoC architecture, including chiplet architecture, coherency management, memory systems, power management, RAS, security, debug, and test architecture.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for translating product requirements into architectural trade-offs.
Nice to have
- 15 years of experience in semiconductor product development.
- 15 years of experience in CPU and/or SoC architecture, including at least 5 years of experience with RISC-V-based products.
- Strong understanding of RISC-V profiles and RV64 application processor requirements.
- Strong expertise in multiple architecture domains of a server SoC including AIA and IOMMU architecture.
- Experience in making PPA, cost, feature and schedule trade-offs to define product architecture.
- Deep understanding of RISC-V Server SoC specification and platform enumeration and firmware requirements.
- Deep understanding of CPU architecture including virtualization extensions.
- Strong understanding of RISC-V security including confidential compute (CoVE) architecture.
- Experience in commercializing server products with proven ability to influence architectures.
- Strong expertise across multiple SoC architecture domains like coherency management, memory system, IO architecture, power management and security.
- Experience with RAS, Debug and Test architecture for datacenter products.
- Experience with ARM architecture including server architectures is a plus.
- Proven track record in delivering hyperscale data center solutions.
Skills: Server Product Architect, RISC-V, CPU server architecture, chiplet architecture, coherency management
This role has been open 59 days — well below the 78-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
474
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$238k
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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 (474 roles · 65 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 75 | 474 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 383 | 3198 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 84 d | 78 d (+6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $238k |
Skills observed across this category: Server Product Architect, RISC-V, CPU server architecture, chiplet architecture, coherency management
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 75 open roles · median 85 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 70 d
- Apple · 36 open roles · median 11 d
- AMD · 34 open roles · median 59 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 114 d
- Micron Technology · 22 open roles · median 106 d
How we counted: 474 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 65 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 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 Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.