# Principal Engineer, FPGA Architecture

Please Note: To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period. Advancing the World’s Technology Together Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future. We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities. What You’ll Do Our research team identifies data movement bottlenecks in AI systems and solves them with new memory and storage SoC architecture, proving each idea on FPGA with real AI workloads Location: Daily onsite presence at our Folsom office/headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy Job ID: 43081 Define architecture and microarchitecture for SoC blocks and prototype them on FPGA

- **Id**: 4053660
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/samsung-semiconductor-principal-engineer-fpga-architecture>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Folsom, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T01:00:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T06:38:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6889
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Memory & Storage Chips

## Company

- **Id**: 684996
- **Name**: Samsung Semiconductor
- **Domain**: samsungsemiconductor.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/samsungsemiconductor>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 70
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 219000
- **Max**: 351000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 351000

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T03:19:21Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 147 · green card filings: 45; Filings 12m: 147

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 70
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 351000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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