Architect Labs

Vice President of ASIC Engineering

Palo Alto
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Palo Alto

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

About the role

Architect Labs's standard text

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.

What You'll Do

Own the ASIC methodology and end-to-end delivery of ambitious AI compute silicons, from microarchitecture and RTL through verification, physical design, signoff, and tapeout. Build a fundamentally faster, AI-native chip-development flow, using automation, intelligent agents, and data-driven feedback loops to accelerate design iteration, verification, closure, and engineering productivity. Lead a world-class team, set an uncompromising bar for PPA and silicon quality, and personally drive the most consequential technical and execution decisions.

What We'd Like to See

  • Repeated tapeout success: Direct leadership of multiple complex, production-volume ASIC or SoC programs, ideally at advanced process nodes.
  • End-to-end ASIC mastery: Deep expertise spanning RTL, functional verification, synthesis, timing closure, physical implementation, DFT, signoff, and silicon bring-up.
  • Methodology innovator: A track record of transforming design flows through automation, ML/AI-assisted EDA, verification productivity, or scalable engineering infrastructure—not merely operating established processes.
  • Execution excellence: A demonstrated ability to deliver demanding programs with strong first-silicon outcomes and disciplined engineering tradeoffs.
  • Elite team builder: A record of recruiting, developing, and leading world-class silicon engineers and technical leaders.
  • Hands-on leadership: Credibility to resolve difficult cross-functional engineering problems personally while building processes that scale.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation and meaningful equity, ownership of critical silicon programs, and the chance to build a world-class ASIC organization at the frontier of computing.

What this role asks for

70% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Architect Labs's standard text, folded away below.

Compared with Architect Labs's other open jobs.

The team: ASIC HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 5 open in ASIC. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (4 of 5), Verilog (3 of 5), C (2 of 5), C++ (2 of 5), FPGA (2 of 5)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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