Staff Engineer, AI System Architect (Hardware)

Samsung Semiconductor's Architecture Research Lab seeks a Senior Staff AI System Architect to bridge AI workloads, system architecture, and hardware design. The role involves developing system-level performance models, driving architecture-level decisions, and proposing next-generation AI system architectures. The position requires onsite presence in San Jose.

• Conduct system-level architectural research for next-generation AI systems spanning compute, memory, and interconnect/network subsystems.
• Develop and maintain analytical and simulation-based system modeling frameworks to evaluate AI workloads and identify performance, scalability, and efficiency bottlenecks.
• Analyze representative and emerging AI workloads (e.g., LLMs, DLRMs) to derive architecture requirements and trade-offs.
• Drive architecture-level design decisions through quantitative modeling, design-space exploration, and performance/power projections.
• Perform comparative studies of alternative system architectures, reporting performance and performance-per-watt metrics.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in hardware architecture, memory, interconnect, and system engineering.
• Communicate architectural insights and recommendations through clear technical presentations and documentation.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of experience in system architecture for large-scale computing platforms with a strong focus on AI workloads.