Director Silicon Performance and Design Execution- GPU

THE ROLE

The Director of Silicon Design Engineering is responsible for owning end to end silicon performance and design execution across post-silicon phases. This role provides technical and organizational leadership for system-level performance attainment, hardware/software optimizations, silicon debug, and sustained performance delivery for complex SoCs and accelerators. The Director drives cross functional alignment across architecture, design, validation, software, and product teams to ensure performance, power, and efficiency targets are met for current and future products.

THE PERSON

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership

• Own systemlevel performance attainment and HW/SW optimization to improve out of box and sustained performance across silicon products.

• Lead post-silicon debug, regression, performance analysis, and optimization efforts to achieve committed product targets.

• Establish and evolve methodologies for power and performance modeling, validation, and siliconbringup.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead execution across multiple silicon programs, ensuring performance and power goals are met on schedule.

• Partner closely with architecture, RTL design, verification, firmware, system software, and product management teams.

• Identifyand mitigate technical and execution risks across the silicon lifecycle.

• Drive continuous improvement in tools, flows, and best practices for silicon design and performance engineering.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Build, scale, and lead a global team of silicon design and performance engineers.

• Manage senior technical leaders (Fellows, Senior Fellows, Directors) and develop succession plans.

• Set clear technical direction, performance expectations, and career development paths for the organization.

• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.

CrossFunctional& External Engagement

• Serve as a primary technical interface with internal senior leadership, including Directors, Senior Directors, Fellows, and Engineering VPs.

• Engage externally with customer platform engineering teams, engineering leads, and product stakeholders as needed.

• Represent silicon design and performance perspectives in executive reviews and customer engagements.

PREFERRED experience:

• Extensive experience in silicon design engineering, performance architecture, or related technical domains.

• Deep understanding of SoC architecture, performance modeling, power analysis, and silicon debug.

• Proven experience leading large, global engineering teams.

• Strongcrossfunctionalleadership and communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical programs from concept throughpostsiliconexecution.

• Experience with high performance compute, AI accelerators, GPUs, or largescale SoCs.

• Background in both hardware and system/software performance optimization.

• Prior experience interfacing with external customers or partners on silicon performance topics.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors orMastersdegree in electrical or computer engineering

LOCATION:

San Jose CA (primary) will consider Austin or Markham, ON