Senior Staff Engineer, SoC NPU Architect
Samsung Research America · 665 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA
Posted 12 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Samsung Research America's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Samsung Research America's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Samsung Research America
- high 13 stale, 0 reposted of 23 open
- Hiring momentum
- 27 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
The Senior Staff Engineer, SoC NPU Architect role involves leading the architectural design and development of next-generation NPU subsystems for Samsung's SoCs. Responsibilities include performance modeling, optimizing hardware-software co-design, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement architectural proposals. The position requires hands-on contributions to innovative NPU features aimed at enhancing performance, power efficiency, and area optimization across various applications.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Bachelor’s, Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer Science, related Science or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- 14+ years of experience in NPU architecture & development
- Hands on experience in developing cycle accurate performance and functional models
- Good knowledge and hands on experience in CNN and LLM models
- Proficient programming skills in Python, System C and/or C++
- Experience in ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX)
Nice to have
- Experience in performance/power modeling using Platform Architect
- Experience in mapping AI use cases to IPs
- Experience with hardware memory managements units, prefetching or memory subsystems
- Experience with multi-core systems and memory coherency
- Experience in ML model optimization on GPU Architecture
What you get
- Base pay range of $203,700 — $305,500 USD
- Annual bonus eligibility
- Generous benefits to help you live life well
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options
- Role involves significant collaboration across teams which may require flexibility in work hours
- Strict policy on trade secrets may limit discussions about previous work during recruitment
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Listed by Samsung Research America on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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