Senior SoC Architect with Expertise in High-Performance Architecture

7 days ago


Mountain View, California, United States Samsung Electronics GmbH Full time

**Company Overview**

Samsung Electronics GmbH is a leading technology company that pushes the boundaries of innovation. Our SOC Lab is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge SoC architectures for future Samsung Galaxy products, including smartphones and tablets.

 

Estimated Salary: $252,025 USD (base pay range: $200,000 — $300,050 USD)

 

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal SoC Architect to drive the definition of new SoC architectures and features for next-generation mobile products. This senior leadership role will identify and assess emerging and existing use cases and propose innovative SoC architectures to efficiently support them.

This role will leverage your solid foundation in architecture, leadership, and SoC design experience to lead cross-functional teams in identifying, analyzing, and optimizing critical complex use cases, including gaming and camera applications.

You will work closely with our global R&D teams to develop high-performance SoC architectures that meet the needs of our customers.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define innovative architectures, SoC specification requirements, from ideation to post-silicon evaluation, for future Samsung smartphones and tablets.
  • Analyze computing blocks, including CPU, GPU, NPU, Fabric, System Cache, DRAM controllers, and derive state-of-the-art SoC architecture optimizing multimedia subsystems (ISP, Media, display controllers).
  • Evaluate and optimize performance for mobile SoCs leveraging SoC evaluation methodology and tools.
  • Analyze smartphone user workload and perform system-level optimization to improve SoC performance and power efficiency, overall SoC HW and SW.
  • Assess the impact of system-level architectural trade-offs (including CPU, GPU, NPU, ISP, Fabric, System Cache, and DRAM, and system software).
  • Build and develop complex SoC performance models, including CPU, GPU, ISP, NPU, System Cache, DRAM controller, and Fabric – particularly around smartphone and mobile platforms.
  • Perform high-level performance modeling and analysis of SoC hardware features, applications, benchmarks, and complex use cases.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and optimize critical complex use cases, including gaming and camera applications. Leverage a data-driven approach to drive consensus around complex architectural proposals.
  • Define HW-based security architecture.

 

Requirements:

  1. BSc, Master's in computer science/engineering or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
  2. 15+ years of experience in SoC.
  3. Experience in architectural modeling and performance analysis, either with analytical models or cycle-accurate simulators.
  4. Knowledge of ARM CPU, Interconnect, and bus protocols and memory subsystem design – including cache subsystems, GPU, NPU, ISP, Media accelerators, Display pipe, Sensor Hub, Audio processing, Power management, and Security infrastructure across the SoC. Communication stack [Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE].
  5. Comfortable with independent specification, analysis, and development from high-level concepts through design and validation.
  6. Experience focused on collaborative development with software and hardware engineering.
  7. Experience delivering low-power SoC architectures, knowledge of power management.
  8. Good written and verbal communication skills.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. PhD. in Computer Science/Engineering with 12+ years of experience.
  2. Excellent software development skills and able to code in C, C++, Python, and similar programming languages.

 

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.



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