Job Description

SoC Architect

Role and Responsibilities

The SoC Architect is a senior technical leader in the company, steering the capability progression of our leading-edge switch SoC and innovating to keep our products the technology leader in the market. The SoC Architect takes up the hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle ownership of our SoC products.

• You will collaborate with our marketing and business development teams to identify use cases with impactful value for customers.
• You will collaborate with all the technical teams (RTL, Physical Design, Systems, Software) to deliver new SoC architecture features and defining the Soft/Hardware Co-Designs to efficiently enable such use cases.
• You will perform detailed performance analysis of the architecture features, applications, benchmarks, power-performance-area trade-off. Where applicable, you will employ performance modeling for complex use cases.
• You will exercise your domain expertise in one or multiple areas. These include Embedded CPU Subsystem, Platform Security, PCIe Interconnect, CXL Interconnect, Ethernet Interconnect, Data Network Switching, Power Management.
• You will be authoring the hardware specifications and architectural validation plan.
• You will review the downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
• You will apply for patents for the novel technologies in our architecture.
• Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation.
• You will also support the publication of customer documentation such as datasheets and programming guides.
• You will also support various post-silicon operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with a Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, or 5+ years of experience with a PhD Degree.
• Proven track record of successful deployment of architectures/architecture features in SoC products.
• Exceptional analytic, written, and verbal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and motivation the collaboration of a diverse set of technical teams.
• Proficiency in evaluating architecture proposals, 3rd party IP features and software/system algorithms and providing innovative guidance.
• Good ability in architecture analysis and system modeling
• Understanding of high-speed IO’s – PCIe, DDR, CXL
• Deep experience in defining security architecture for SoCs.
• Deep experience in ARM CPU subsystem architecture, including memory subsystem design, cache subsystems and software debug architecture.

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