Head of SoC Architecture

SBT is the exclusive executive recruiting firm for this confidential position. This confidential startup company is developing next-gen compute silicon, designed to advance AI high-performance computing. Led by seasoned semiconductor and technology executives, the company is building highly scalable SoC products focused on delivering significant improvements in performance, efficiency, and system-level capability. This Head of SoC Architecture role offers the opportunity to contribute to foundational technology, influence product development from an early-stage, and help shape the future of advanced computing. Role Role Own the overall SoC and system architecture, establishing the technical vision across multiple silicon programs. Partner directly with the executive leadership team to translate business objectives, market requirements, and product strategy into actionable silicon roadmaps. Lead 0-to-1 architecture development, transforming early product concepts into system specifications, subsystem definitions, implementation plans, and long-term platform strategies. Drive architectural decisions and tradeoff analysis across performance, power, area, memory hierarchy, interconnect, scalability, programmability, and system cost. Establish clear hardware and software interfaces while ensuring alignment across compute, memory, I/O, security, power management, and other major SoC subsystems. Provide technical direction to CPU, SoC, RTL, verification, performance, software, physical design, and silicon validation teams throughout the complete development lifecycle. Guide programs from early architecture and performance modeling through implementation, tapeout, silicon bring-up, productization, and production readiness. Qualifications Extensive experience in SoC, CPU, accelerator, or system architecture, with demonstrated leadership of complex, high-performance silicon programs. Proven ownership of multiple chip development cycles from initial product definition and architecture through tapeout, bring-up, and production deployment. Deep understanding of SoC integration, compute subsystems, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, interconnects, I/O, power management, and hardware/software interfaces. Demonstrated ability to make system-level architectural tradeoffs across performance, power, area, cost, scalability, reliability, and time to market. Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership while building alignment across highly specialized engineering disciplines. #J-18808-Ljbffr SBT