Senior System Architect

Responsibilities

• Define and own the system architecture roadmap, balancing performance, power, and scalability
• Contribute to system-level design from concept through production, coordinating with chip design, mechanical, and manufacturing teams
• Specify system interfaces, power delivery networks, interconnects, and control subsystems
• Guide board and platform design for early bring-up and validation
• Partner with software and firmware leads to ensure seamless integration and coherent system-level performance
• Evaluate emerging technologies and components to inform architectural decisions
• Act as a technical mentor, raising the bar for design discipline and documentation
• Represent system architecture in technical reviews, partner discussions, and customer engagements

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Systems Architect, SoC Architect, or similar role in semiconductor or high-performance computing domains
• Deep understanding of system-level design, including power, thermal, I/O, memory, and interconnect architectures
• Strong grasp of digital design flows
• Experience taking complex hardware systems from concept through to mass production
• Demonstrated ability to define and manage system requirements and trade-offs
• Ability to work across hardware, firmware, and software disciplines
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in AI acceleration, HPC, or data-centric architectures
• Experience with FPGA prototyping and system bring-up
• Familiarity with modern toolchains and modelling environments such as SystemC or MATLAB
• Prior start-up or scale-up experience

About the Company

Fractile is building silicon, systems and software which will redefine the frontier of AI by running the world’s most advanced models at radically higher speed and lower cost. Founded in 2022, the team is expanding rapidly with modern, open offices in London and Bristol.