# Principal Silicon Systems Architect

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond, WA
**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 are seeking a Principal Silicon Systems Architect to shape future platforms from workloads and product goals through system architecture, silicon roadmaps, and product execution.

The successful candidate will have a mix of technical breadth and depth across various technologies, allowing them to work cross-functionally with different disciplines to develop compelling innovative platforms and products.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead silicon roadmap definition and development with silicon partners, or lead system architecture for a key compute pillar such as AI or system memory.

- 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.

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 Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Camera
- Display technologies

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
- Track record of defining and delivering complex SoCs or systems
- Experience shaping silicon roadmaps
- Proven experience in driving complex product and system feature decisions
- 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

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