Sr. Director, SoC Architecture - Remote
$281,600 - $422,400 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Sr. Director, SoC Architecture directs and oversees the architecture, modeling, and development of machine learning hardware and co-designed software for inference and training across mobile, edge, auto, and IoT products.
What you'll do
- Influence and oversee the extension of training or runtime frameworks and model efficiency software tools with new features and optimizations. - Determine and oversee guidelines for modeling, architecture, and developing machine learning hardware co-designed with machine learning software for inference or training solutions. - Direct the development of optimized software, including machine learning kernels, compiler tools, and model efficiency tools, to enable AI models deployed on hardware. - Execute product proposals and roadmaps across varying levels of complexity while defining strategic direction for engineering teams. - Supervise direct reports, oversee manager-level staff, and manage departmental budgets, schedules, and performance standards. - Provide status updates and experimental results on machine learning solutions to key cross-functional business stakeholders.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with 10+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related experience (or Master's degree with 9+ years, or PhD with 8+ years). - Experience leading technical strategy and roadmap execution for hardware engineering or systems engineering programs. - Experience managing schedules, budgets, and engineering performance standards within a multidisciplinary organization.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. - 5+ years of experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Caffe, Caffe 2, PyTorch, or Keras. - 5+ years of experience with low-level interactions between operating systems (Linux, Android, QNX) and hardware. - 5+ years of experience in embedded system development and optimization within specific ML domains (e.g., NLP, multi-media). - 5+ years of experience with programming languages suitable for machine learning, such as Python, R, C, or C++. - 5+ years of experience using statistics and probability (e.g., conditional probability, Bayes rule). - Demonstrated track record of developing at least 1 novel machine learning architecture. - 4+ years in a technical leadership role with direct reports in a matrixed organization, and 3+ years interacting with senior leadership (Vice President and above).
Skills: ML architecture, SoC architecture, inference, hardware-software co-design, runtime frameworks
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 198-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
28
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Median days open
198 d
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Median salary
$237k
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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 (28 roles · 11 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 28 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 424 | 3321 · 115 employers |
| Median days open | 198 d | 198 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $237k |
Skills observed across this category: ML architecture, SoC architecture, inference, hardware-software co-design, runtime frameworks
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 194 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 7 open roles · median 198 d
- SiFive · 3 open roles · median 195 d
- AMD · 2 open roles · median 195 d
- Infineon Technologies · 2 open roles · median 192 d
- Intel Corporation · 2 open roles · median 2 d
How we counted: 28 open SoC/Chip Architecture (AI ML Hardware) roles from 11 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.