AI Solution Architecture and Pathfinding Director

Job Title: AI Solution Architecture and Pathfinding Director
Office Location: San Jose, CA
Job Type: Full-Time
Work Model: Onsite

Job Summary:

Establish local technical ownership in the U.S. to translate customer workloads into memory and storage requirements. Lead both HBF validation and architecture pathfinding initiatives in parallel

Responsibilities:

• Define priorities for customer problems, workload architecture, and technical exploration; establish common baselines and drive alignment through Architecture Requirement Document (ARD).
• Lead joint exploration and validation with partner companies, including technical charter development, validation targets, and Gate management.
• Coordinate Memory Architecture, AI Systems Software, and Validation teams to integrate technical things, align partner validation activities, and facilitate HQ technology transfer.
• Lead team staffing, role assignments, budget management, and local technical decision-making; take ownership of product approval and commercialization responsibilities.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of LLM pre-training/post-training (SFT, RL), AI inference/serving workloads, memory/storage hierarchies, and data movement bottlenecks.
• Proven experience leading AI architecture decisions, including performance-cost trade-offs, rqeuirements definition, and validation.
• Ability to translate customer and partner requirements into actionable architectural specifications and organizational priorities.
• Preferred: Experience leading AI system-memory solution initiatives from early exploration through joint validation, devlopment and production transition.

Benefits:

• Top Tier health insurance at no employee cost
• Paid day offs: Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Parental Leave, Happy Fridays
• 401k Matching
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for Health Care & Dependent Care
• Educational reimbursement up to $10,000 per year
• Donation Matching and volunteering opportunities
• Corporate discount programs
• Free Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner provided to employees