System Architect

Palo Alto Office Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About this Role
You will define the architecture for advanced compute and hardware systems — integrating AI co-design, performance modeling, and cross-domain optimization. You’ll translate system-level requirements into cohesive architectures that balance power, performance, and scalability, guiding implementation teams toward next-generation platforms.

You might thrive if you have 5+ years of experience in

  • SoC or system architecture and performance modeling

  • Hardware/software co-design and cross-layer optimization

  • Interface definition, memory hierarchy, and interconnect design

  • Leading architecture reviews and specification development

About this role

Summary

Designs advanced compute and hardware systems, translating requirements into cohesive architectures.

Job title

System Architect

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Palo Alto office; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

SoCsystem architectureperformance modelinghardware/software co-designinterconnect design

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

SoCsystem architectureperformance modelinghardware/software co-designinterconnect design
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site