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Physical AI SoC Architect

AMD1,293 open roles

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ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world’s most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.

Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we’ll advance your career.

THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced SoC Architect to define next-generation SoCs for automotive, robotics, vision, and Physical AI applications. In this role, you will define SoC architecture and translate real-world workloads and customer use cases into quantitative SoC requirements spanning compute, memory, bandwidth, interconnect, data movement, power, and end-to-end latency.

You will work across the SoC development lifecycle, evaluating architectural alternatives and helping translate system-level requirements into executable SoC designs.

THE PERSON

You are passionate about System and SoC architecture and understand how workload characteristics translate into silicon requirements. You combine strong analytical and performance-modeling skills with knowledge of heterogeneous SoCs, processors, AI acceleration, memory systems, and interconnects.

You bring broad system-level understanding along with depth in one or more areas such as AI/ML, automotive, robotics, multimedia/imaging, GPU, signal processing, or power/performance. You enjoy solving complex system-level problems and collaborating across hardware, software, performance, and customer-facing teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Translate Physical AI, automotive, robotics, and vision workloads into SoC compute, memory, bandwidth, interconnect, and latency requirements.
  • Model end-to-end data flows across sensor, CPU, AI accelerators, memory hierarchy, on-chip interconnect, and I/O.
  • Analyze and optimize data placement and movement across DDR memory, caches, on-chip memory, accelerator-local memory, and buffers.
  • Correlate AI compute requirements and accelerator performance with memory bandwidth, data movement, utilization, and system-level performance.
  • Perform what-if and scaling analyses across camera count, resolution, frame rate, AI model characteristics, precision, memory configuration, and accelerator performance.
  • Develop data-flow diagrams, bandwidth models, traffic timelines, latency budgets, and bottleneck analyses to drive architecture decisions.
  • Evaluate architectural alternatives and make informed performance, power, area, and cost trade-offs.
  • Collaborate with SoC, AI, CPU, memory, interconnect, software, and performance teams to optimize end-to-end system performance.
  • Support architectural decisions through implementation and execution across the SoC development lifecycle.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

  • Strong experience with heterogeneous SoC architecture and system performance analysis.
  • Knowledge of x86 and/or ARM or RISC-V processor architecture, cache/memory hierarchies, coherent interconnects, and heterogeneous acceleration.
  • Experience with AI/ML inference, computer vision, robotics, automotive, multimedia/imaging, or other complex SoC workloads.
  • Strong understanding of DDR/LPDDR, cache and memory behavior, NoC/interconnect traffic, latency, QoS, and data movement.
  • Experience developing analytical or simulation-based performance models using Python, C/C++, SystemC, MATLAB, or similar tools.
  • Ability to translate application workloads into quantitative architecture requirements and identify system performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience contributing to architecture, design, verification, or implementation across the SoC development lifecycle is highly valued.
  • Familiarity with embedded system constraints including power, thermal limits, real-time performance, functional safety, and security is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

LOCATION: San Jose, CA OR San Diego, CA OR Austin, TX

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Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position. AMD’s “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

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