VP, Systems Engineering

Job description

Mythic, the leader in energy-efficient high-performance AI computing spanning from the edge to the datacenter, is hiring a VP of Systems Engineering to own the path from silicon to shipping platforms. This is the role that turns Mythic's analog compute chips into reliable, validated, customer-ready systems — cards, modules, and reference platforms that OEMs and hyperscale partners can integrate with confidence. You'll build and lead the team responsible for hardware/software co-validation, platform bring-up, and system-level performance and reliability. You will be the technical bridge between chip design, firmware/software, and the customers deploying Mythic solutions in the field. ### What you'll do - Own end-to-end systems engineering for Mythic's AMP-based products: post-silicon bring-up, platform/board-level validation, and characterization across the M1076 APU, PCIe cards, and M.2 modules. - Build and scale the systems engineering team as Mythic grows from single-chip products to multi-card and rack-scale deployments. - Drive hardware/software co-validation with firmware, compiler, and applications teams to ensure silicon performance claims (throughput, power, latency) hold up in real customer workloads. - Serve as the primary technical escalation point for silicon and platform issues raised by customers and partners across robotics, automotive, defense, and data center. - Own test infrastructure, automation, and characterization methodology to shorten the bring-up-to-production timeline for new silicon and card revisions. - Feed field and validation learnings back into next-generation chip and system design with product and architecture teams. ### What you'll bring - 12+ years in systems engineering, silicon bring-up, or platform validation, with progressively larger scope managing engineering teams. - Direct experience taking chips from tape-out through post-silicon validation into shipping hardware products (cards, modules, or servers). - Excellent technical grounding in the hardware/software boundary, board-level electrical debug, and reasoning about the compiler/firmware stack that sits on top of custom silicon. - Proven track record building and scaling a systems or validation organization at a semiconductor or systems company. - Experience supporting external customers or OEM partners through technical qualification and deployment of new silicon. - Comfort operating in a startup environment — this role has less infrastructure and more ambiguity than the equivalent function at a large chip company, and requires building processes rather than inheriting them. - Preferred experience with novel or non-standard compute architectures (analog, in-memory, or otherwise non-GPU AI accelerators). - Preferred background at a large-scale systems engineering organization (e.g., NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm) in a bring-up/validation/platform role, with the judgment to know what to bring from that world and what to leave behind at Mythic's scale. - Preferred familiarity with edge AI deployment environments — robotics, automotive, or defense — where power, size, and reliability constraints are as important as raw performance.