System Architect – Industrial Robotics and Healthcare - TX, Austin, United States
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role owns system architecture from initial concept through implementation within the Industrial, Robotics, and Healthcare business unit. The position defines system architectures spanning AI workloads, heterogeneous compute, FPGA and adaptive SoC platforms, ARM and x86 processors, embedded software, and real-time control.
What you'll do
- Define end-to-end system architectures for AI-enabled embedded, robotics, industrial, and healthcare applications. - Partition workloads across CPU, GPU, NPU, FPGA programmable logic, AI Engines, MCUs, and external accelerators. - Architect AI inference pipelines for vision, sensor processing, robotics, and edge intelligence applications. - Evaluate architectural trade-offs involving latency, throughput, determinism, memory bandwidth, power, thermal constraints, functional safety, cost, and scalability. - Develop system architecture specifications, data-flow diagrams, interface definitions, timing budgets, memory and bandwidth requirements, and implementation guidance. - Guide proof-of-concepts, benchmarks, reference designs, and technical demonstrators while identifying system-level architectural risks early.
What you'll need
- Experience owning system architecture from initial concept through implementation across hardware, software, and AI boundaries. - Technical expertise spanning heterogeneous compute, FPGA and adaptive SoC platforms, ARM and x86 processors, embedded software, real-time control, sensors, and communication interfaces. - Ability to define and analyze interface, timing, latency, bandwidth, and memory budgets using measurable engineering criteria. - Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional hands-on system architecture experience. - Ability to travel approximately 25% to support onsite customer meetings and engagements.
Nice to have
- Practical knowledge of FPGA and adaptive SoC architectures and modern programmable logic design methodologies. - Experience with embedded systems development using C/C++, Python, embedded Linux, device drivers, Yocto, Buildroot, or comparable environments. - Experience with robotics and real-time control systems, including motor control, torque control, impedance control, multi-rate control loops, sensor acquisition, and deterministic scheduling. - Knowledge of industrial and embedded interfaces such as EtherCAT, CAN-FD, CANopen, SPI, I²C, Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, and USB. - Understanding of system safety and reliability concepts, including watchdogs, safe states, diagnostics, fault detection, timeout handling, and standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ISO 13849, and IEC 62304. - Familiarity with AI deployment frameworks and runtimes such as ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or comparable technologies, along with knowledge of agentic AI concepts and architectures.
Skills: system architecture, heterogeneous compute, FPGA, adaptive SoC, workload partitioning
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 81-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
486
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Median days open
81 d
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Median salary
$239k
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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 (486 roles · 68 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 40 | 486 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 259 | 3359 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 81 d (−21 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $239k |
Skills observed across this category: system architecture, heterogeneous compute, FPGA, adaptive SoC, workload partitioning
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 83 open roles · median 81 d
- NVIDIA · 54 open roles · median 69 d
- Apple · 44 open roles · median 18 d
- AMD (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 76 d
- Arm Holdings · 27 open roles · median 124 d
- Micron Technology · 21 open roles · median 103 d
How we counted: 486 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 68 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.