Staff Graphics Architecture Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role focuses on designing architectural mechanisms to improve system functionality, robustness, resiliency, diagnosability, and recoverability for GFXIP deployments.
What you'll do
- Assist in writing and reviewing architectural specifications for new hardware capabilities.
- Develop solutions for system robustness, fault management, recovery, observability, and serviceability requirements with GPU, AI, and SoC architects.
- Analyze architectural tradeoffs involving performance, power, area, security, and reliability.
- Support hardware design teams in evaluating resiliency mechanisms, failure-management strategies, and architectural coverage.
- Collaborate across architecture, hardware design, software, SoC, and product teams to ensure architectural requirements are implemented.
- Help analyze product reliability metrics such as FIT, DPPM, MTBF, and MTBR.
What you'll need
- Experience in CPUs, SoCs, accelerators, networking, storage, automotive, or other complex hardware systems.
- Strong engineering fundamentals.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with architectural techniques that improve system robustness, error detection, recovery, diagnosability, and resiliency.
- Knowledge of concepts and mechanisms such as ECC, parity, watchdog timers, heartbeat monitors, fault containment, and recoverable error handling.
- Experience with RTL design and/or verification.
- Experience with GPUs, AI accelerators, SoCs, CPUs, networking, storage, automotive, or other large-scale hardware designs.
- Understanding of reliability metrics such as FIT, DPPM, MTBF, MTBR, or related figures of merit.
- Master's or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Skills: GFXIP Architecture, GPU, AI, SoC, system architects, architectural capabilities, system functionality, robustness, resiliency, diagnosability
This role has been open 11 days — well below the 77-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
460
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Median days open
77 d
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Median salary
$236k
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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 (460 roles · 63 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 34 | 460 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 265 | 3166 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 77 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: GFXIP Architecture, GPU, AI, SoC, system architects, architectural capabilities, system functionality, robustness, resiliency, diagnosability
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 76 open roles · median 81 d
- NVIDIA · 60 open roles · median 64 d
- AMD (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 59 d
- Apple · 34 open roles · median 4 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 107 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 21 open roles · median 109 d
How we counted: 460 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 63 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.