XPU Architect
Volantis Semiconductor, Inc. · Hybrid Remote/SF Bay Area/Austin/Boston · United States · Hybrid
Posted Jul 29, 2026
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What We’re Looking For:
We’re looking for an XPU Architect to own the XPU compute engine architecture of the A-0 and A-1 systems. This will initially involve heavily leveraging existing 3rd party IP, but in a creative way to solve the bandwidth demand challenges and memory system interface challenges. Future generations of the compute XPU will be semi-custom and custom designs.
Ideal Background:
An ideal candidate will have:
Previous experience architecting and owning a high performance, high TDP ASIC (eg AI chips, network switch chips, high performance CPUs or similar)
Knowledge of both computer architecture but also silicon implementation, and understanding of the realistic constraints that silicon implementation places upon architectural options
Deep understanding of AI workloads, especially low latency LLM inference
Understanding of workload and system level bottlenecks, especially around inference, as it pertains to interconnect, memory capacity, bandwidth, latency, etc.
Strongly Preferred:
Hands-on experience with AI chip architecture and tapeouts
End to end ownership of at least one AI ASIC project
History of product delivery (regardless of ultimate commercial success of said product)
Experience with HBM-based AI chip architecture
Experience in proposing “weird” chip architectures (in any domain, not just AI!)