Silicon Architect, Subsystem Architecture

Reality Labs focuses on delivering Meta's vision through creating advanced AR/AI enabled wearables. The compute performance and power efficiency requirements of wearables require custom silicon. Reality Labs Silicon team is driving the state-of-the-art forward with breakthrough work in AI, augmented reality, computer vision, machine learning, graphics, displays, and sensors. Our chips will enable wearable devices where our real and virtual worlds will mix and match throughout the day. We believe the only way to achieve our goals is to look at the entire stack, from transistors, through architecture, firmware, and algorithms.As a Memory Architect on the Subsystem Architecture team, you will work with senior memory architects to analyze and define on-chip memory for the accelerator subsystems and IPs in our wearable chips, from caches and scratchpads down to SRAM selection, balancing power, performance and area (PPA) under tight wearable budgets.

Silicon Architect, Subsystem Architecture Responsibilities:

Analyze memory requirements per workload across accelerator subsystems, including caches, scratchpads and DSP local memories
Evaluate SRAM options (compiled or custom, bitcell, banking, low-voltage and retention modes) and recommend the best fit for each memory
Build memory models and power, performance and area comparisons to inform architecture decisions
Support studies on memory hierarchy trade-offs, such as cache sizing and on-chip versus off-chip memory, eventually owning end-to-end analysis and next-generation memory system architecture for one or more subsystems
Track emerging memory technologies (such as MRAM, RRAM, eDRAM, 3D-stacked memory and compute-in-memory) and assess their fit for wearable subsystems
Correlate memory estimates with pre-silicon and silicon data, and inform improvements to modeling methodologies
Work with senior memory architects, IP and DSP architects, memory and circuit design teams, and software and firmware teams across multiple programs

Minimum Qualifications:

2+ years of experience in silicon architecture, memory design, or related silicon engineering disciplines
Understanding of how memory technologies, architectures and microarchitectures (for example SRAM bitcell, Vmin, leakage and banking) affect the power, performance and area of memory-intensive systems
Experience building analytical, functional and cycle-accurate models to evaluate memory trade-offs

Preferred Qualifications:

Publications at venues such as ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ISSCC or VLSI Symposium
Experience with SPICE, memory compilers or low-voltage SRAM
Experience sizing caches, scratchpads or DSP memories for accelerator workloads
Research or industry experience with emerging memory technologies
Experience in both memory hierarchy and cache analysis and SRAM circuit design

About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$114,000/year to $172,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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