Engineer · Executive

Amir Salek

Compute at Anthropic

Amir Salek founded Google’s custom-silicon organization and led the program that delivered the first generations of Tensor Processing Units, chips designed specifically to make machine learning faster and more efficient. Earlier, he founded NVIDIA’s system-on-chip design organization and worked on its GPU and Tegra product lines.

Career & education

Current role

Anthropic2026-present

Compute

Previously

Google2013-2022

Founder and Head of Custom Silicon

NVIDIA2005-2013

Senior Director of Engineering

Education

University of Southern California

Sharif University of Technology

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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Salek, now working on compute at Anthropic, founded Google’s custom-silicon organization and previously led system-on-chip engineering at NVIDIA.

September 26, 2026

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