GPU/XPU Lab Director | MRL Consulting

Overview

As GPU Chief Architect / XPU Lab Director, you will steer the design of next-generation mobile GPU and AI compute architectures. You will shape both hardware and software directions, aligning with the company’s high-performance, energy-efficient silicon goals. You’ll lead microarchitectural decisions, collaborate across CPU, software, and system teams, and guide projects from concept to tape-out and silicon bring-up. This role combines technical leadership with strategic influence in a globally recognized tech organisation, offering impact across performance, power, and area constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define GPU/NPU architectures optimized for performance, power and silicon area
• Analyze graphics and AI workloads to inform future hardware/software architectures
• Lead GPU microarchitecture, including execution pipelines, scheduling, cache and memory systems
• Optimize on-chip interconnect and resource sharing for heterogeneous workloads
• Collaborate with CPU, AI software and system architecture teams
• Drive architecture from concept through tape-out and support silicon bring-up

Key requirements

• 15+ years’ experience in GPU, AI accelerator or heterogeneous compute architecture
• Deep knowledge of GPU microarchitecture, including SIMD/SIMT, scheduling and memory systems
• Strong understanding of AI acceleration and tensor/matrix processing
• Proven experience delivering high-volume silicon
• Expertise in performance modelling, power analysis and system-level architecture
• Strong technical leadership and cross-functional communication skills

• strong technical leadership
• cross-functional communication
• GPU microarchitecture
• SIMD/SIMT
• scheduling
• memory systems

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