Architect Labs
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Chief Architect

Location
Palo Alto
Listed
12 days ago

What You'll Do

Define the architectural vision for new generation of AI compute silicons, and reinvent how architectures are discovered, explored and co-optimized with AI. Own the critical decisions across compute, memory, interconnect, and hardware-software co-design. Build an autoresearch architecture-search pipeline that connects workload analysis, design-space exploration, performance modeling, and PPA feedback to rapidly uncover architectures conventional methods would miss. Partner closely with ASIC and software leaders to turn the strongest ideas into silicon, with hands-on ownership of the toughest tradeoffs.

What We'd Like to See

  • Exceptional architecture pedigree: A seasoned architect and technical leader or equivalent who has defined and shipped multiple industry-leading CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, or complex SoCs.
  • Full-stack systems judgment: Deep command of computer architecture, performance modeling, memory systems, interconnects, power/performance/area tradeoffs, and software-hardware co-design.
  • Proven product impact: Architectural decisions that materially improved performance, efficiency, scalability, or product competitiveness in deployed silicon.
  • Technical authority: The ability to challenge assumptions, simplify complex systems, mentor outstanding engineers, and lead through technical credibility rather than hierarchy.
  • Builder mentality: Comfortable moving from first-principles exploration to detailed engineering decisions in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation and meaningful equity, extraordinary technical ownership, and the opportunity to shape foundational computing systems alongside a small, exceptional team.

About Architect Labs

Architect is a frontier AI lab for custom silicon. We partner with frontier labs, clouds / neoclouds, physical AI companies, and advanced fabs to tape-out custom chips co-designed for next-generation AI workloads. Our goal is to compress end-to-end software to silicon timelines, and maximize intelligence per watt and per dollar for the world. We are a small exceptional team across silicon, systems, software and frontier AI. Our team have led research teams at nearly every frontier AI lab, and at some of the most complex SoCs in the world.

Read the original posting

From Architect Labs's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 29, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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