Distinguished Technologist - Memory/Storage Utilization & Data Placement Architect

Responsibilities

• Architect memory/storage hierarchy (DRAM, SSD, cache layers)
• Define policies for data placement & movement across tiers (hot vs. cold data)
• Optimize paging, prefetching, and streaming for AI inference/training
• Partner with SW team to ensure models are co-optimized across memory & storage for max AI performance
• Enable efficient use of storage as memory extension (e.g., spillover, KV cache strategies)
• Collaborate with OS/runtime teams on data orchestration
• Evaluate emerging approaches (unified memory, memory pooling, compression)

Requirements

• Leverages recognized technical and business expertise to define long-term vision and strategy for electrical hardware design and development across multiple feature areas and divisional boundaries.
• Develops technology roadmaps for electrical/hardware engineering team; identifies gaps and solutions for future growth.
• Communicates strategy and technology roadmaps to executive staff, industry partners and customers.
• Leverages recognized technical and business expertise to define long-term vision and strategy for electrical hardware design and development across multiple feature areas and divisional boundaries.
• Provides innovative solutions and integrates advanced technologies, theories, or techniques with a significant impact across disciplines, championing large projects for long-range goals.
• Provides consultation, design input, and feedback for new product development and design reviews across multiple organizations and architectures.
• Works closely with product management, engineering stakeholders from related departments and empowers the teams to deliver outstanding and impactful results.
• Initiates industry-leading research and development, serving as a recognized lead authority internally and externally.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to less-experienced staff members to set an example of electrical hardware design and development, innovation, and excellence.
• Participates in and provides input on process for selection of future technical leaders.

Qualifications

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 12+ years of work experience, preferably in electrical design and tools, software packages, architecture of electronic hardware, or a related field.

Skills

• Memory design
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Debugging
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronic Engineering
• Electronics
• Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
• Hardware Architecture
• Hardware Design
• MATLAB
• Mechanical Engineering
• New Product Development
• Oscilloscope
• Physics
• Printed Circuit Board Schematic Capture
• Simulations
• Systems Design
• Cross-Org Skills
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity
• Impact & Scope
• Impacts multiple functions and influences long-term strategic direction across multiple disciplines or areas of HP.
• Complexity
• Invents, develops and introduces new methods and techniques that impact multiple disciplines and work groups.

Pay, Benefits & Schedule

Pay Range: $190,000.00 - $274,000.00 annually
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, long term/short term disability insurance, employee assistance program, flexible spending account, life insurance, generous time off policies, parental leave, holidays, and additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave.