SOC Platform Architect

6 days ago


Austin, Texas, United States Qualcomm Full time
Job Title: SOC Platform Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled SOC Platform Architect to join our team at Qualcomm. As a key member of our SoC Platform Architecture team, you will be responsible for defining platform architectures and solutions that enable the next-generation of system-on-chip (SoC) products across Qualcomm's business lines.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Create highly scalable SoC architectures in the area of SoC control, boot, reset, timebase management, debug, etc.
  • Comprehend product requirements to steer generation of proper architecture.
  • Perform trade-off analysis in the solution space to produce the most optimal architecture.
  • Collaborate with architects, technical leads, hardware and software engineers from various functional areas in deriving the architectural solution that can best integrate in the overall SoC.
  • Generate detail architectural specification and work closely with design team to implement the architecture.
Requirements:
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills with ability to convey proposals and interact effectively across a distributed multi-discipline organization.
  • Strong foundation of silicon design principles and architectural trade-offs.
  • Ability to span and connect levels of abstraction across system-design, high-level languages, OS, HW/SW interface, micro-architecture, and silicon implementation.
  • Background in architecture (IP or SoC), and/or front-end design/verification (micro-architecture).
  • Demonstrated deep technical knowledge and achievements at the SoC, sub-system or large IP levels as micro-architect or architect.
  • Ability to apply appropriate abstractions and quantitative analysis for problem definition and solutions.
  • Experience in using, improving, and developing a variety of tools for analysis and modeling, such as functional and performance simulators, profilers, etc.
  • Programming ability for modeling and automation (OOP C++, Python preferred) with experience in software development best practices including reviews, unit-testing, version control, etc.
  • Ability and desire to develop and improve architecture methodologies for experiments and analysis.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of SoC/IP architecture or micro-architecture/front-end-design experience.
  • Candidates with primarily a micro-architecture/design background must have contributions that demonstrate higher-level analysis and design.
  • Additional experience and expertise in SoC architectures, resource and power management, security architecture, system-level debug, safety, reliability, and high-resilience/high-availability systems, AI & Machine Learning, control and real-time systems, high-level Operating Systems, real-time operating systems, front-end digital hardware design or verification, Arm system architectures, RISC-V architecture, high-speed I/O, external memory and storage architectures, networking & connectivity, behavioral, functional and performance modeling, power and/or performance optimization through simulation & modeling, simulator architectures and frameworks, analytical modeling for performance and power.
Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field required; Master's degree or PhD highly desired.
Equal Opportunity Employer:

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Pay range: $139,000.00 - $234,500.00



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