VP, Systems Engineering - Palo Alto, CA, United States
$250,000 - $375,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.
Own the path from silicon to shipping platforms for Mythic's analog compute chips.
About the role
This role involves owning the path from silicon to shipping platforms, turning Mythic's analog compute chips into reliable, validated, customer-ready systems such as cards, modules, and reference platforms. You will build and lead the team responsible for hardware/software co-validation, platform bring-up, and system-level performance and reliability for products like the M1076 APU, PCIe cards, and M.2 modules.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end systems engineering for Mythic's AMP-based products, including post-silicon bring-up, platform/board-level validation, and characterization.
- Build and scale the systems engineering team as Mythic grows from single-chip products to multi-card and rack-scale deployments.
- Drive hardware/software co-validation with firmware, compiler, and applications teams to ensure silicon performance claims hold up in real customer workloads.
- Serve as the primary technical escalation point for silicon and platform issues raised by customers and partners.
- Own test infrastructure, automation, and characterization methodology to shorten the bring-up-to-production timeline.
What you'll need
- 12+ years in systems engineering, silicon bring-up, or platform validation, with progressively larger scope managing engineering teams.
- Direct experience taking chips from tape-out through post-silicon validation into shipping hardware products (cards, modules, or servers).
- Excellent technical grounding in the hardware/software boundary, board-level electrical debug, and reasoning about the compiler/firmware stack on custom silicon.
- Proven track record building and scaling a systems or validation organization at a semiconductor or systems company.
- Experience supporting external customers or OEM partners through technical qualification and deployment of new silicon.
- Comfort operating in a startup environment.
Nice to have
- Experience with novel or non-standard compute architectures (analog, in-memory, or otherwise non-GPU AI accelerators).
- Background at a large-scale systems engineering organization in a bring-up/validation/platform role.
- Familiarity with edge AI deployment environments (robotics, automotive, or defense).
Skills: systems engineering, post-silicon validation, platform bring-up, hardware/software co-validation, AI accelerators
This role has been open 83 days — well above the 51-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
966
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$156k
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| Metric | Mythic | All employers we track in this specialty (966 roles · 102 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 966 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 11 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 83 d | 51 d (+32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $156k |
Skills observed across this category: systems engineering, post-silicon validation, platform bring-up, hardware/software co-validation, AI accelerators
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 73 open roles · median 37 d
- KLA Corporation · 65 open roles · median 45 d
- Teradyne · 57 open roles · median 31 d
- NVIDIA · 51 open roles · median 69 d
- Applied Materials · 50 open roles · median 67 d
- AMD · 47 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 966 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 102 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 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.