# Principal Silicon Systems Architect

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Mountain View
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

We're seeking a Principal Silicon Systems Architect to shape future platforms from workloads and product goals through system architecture, silicon roadmaps, and product execution.

You will work cross-functionally with different disciplines, including System Architecture, Software/Firmware, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electrical, Camera, and Display, to develop compelling innovative platforms and products.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead silicon roadmap definition and development with silicon partners

- Translate workloads, target experiences, and product goals into system and silicon requirements

- Define architecture, capabilities, KPIs, and tradeoffs across compute, memory, power, performance, cost, thermal, security, and software

- Drive co-design across Windows, AI, device, platform, and silicon teams

- Shape partner roadmaps by identifying capability gaps and defining Microsoft's strategic requirements

- Build workload and system models to guide architecture and product decisions

- Drive technical alignment from early definition through silicon and product execution

- Communicate complex technical tradeoffs to drive decisions across engineering teams, executives, and partners

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience

- OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience

- OR Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience

- OR equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, with 10+ years of experience in silicon, system, or product development

- Track record of defining and delivering complex SoCs or systems from architecture through product launch

- Experience shaping silicon roadmaps and driving architecture decisions with silicon partners

- Proven experience in driving complex product and system feature decisions across a wide range of stakeholders

- Experience with workload characterization, performance analysis, and system modeling

- Deep expertise in SoC architecture or a key system domain such as AI, compute, memory, power, or performance

- Understanding of heterogeneous compute across CPU, GPU, NPU, media, memory, interconnects, and power management

- Ability to establish direction and drive decisions with incomplete information

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- System Architecture
- Software/Firmware
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Electrical
- Camera
- Display

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
- silicon
- system
- product development
- SoC architecture
- AI
- compute
- memory
- power
- performance

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