Data Center AI SoC & System Architect - Qualcomm - Grenoble, France

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Grenoble; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm France S.A.R.L. is seeking exceptional architects to shape multiple generations of AI accelerators and complete data center systems with a strong focus on SoC, memory, and system architecture.

Join a collaborative, multidisciplinary team driving performance, power, area, and scalability for next-generation cloud AI workloads. You will partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, platform, and customer teams and translate workload requirements into architecture

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in EE, ECE, CE, CS, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in SoC, platform, or system architecture; AI accelerators; memory architecture.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and contribute to technical direction.
• Experience with quantitative SoC and system studies using calculators, spreadsheets, and simulators.
• Experience correlating modeled vs. observed system performance and driving closure.
• Excellent technical communication and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, platform, and customer teams to deliver market-leading data center systems.
• Translate product and workload requirements into SoC and system specifications and drive feature-set requirements.
• Execute SoC and system architecture studies, quantify performance, memory bandwidth, and scalability tradeoffs; drive analysis tools.
• Follow designs through implementation and production; correlate performance with models and targets; drive closure.
• Execute competitive analyses across SoC, platform, system, compute, memory, and deployment considerations.
• Support and mentor technical contributors and generate innovations and patents.

Skills

C++

Python

Architecture modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

Tools

Calculators

Spreadsheets

Analytical models

Profilers

Performance simulators

Job description

Company

Qualcomm France S.A.R.L.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary

Qualcomm’s Data Center AI Architecture team defines next-generation cloud AI system-on-chip (SoC) and systems for generative AI inference workloads that demand exceptional compute, memory bandwidth, capacity, and system scalability.

We are seeking exceptional architects to help shape multiple generations of AI accelerators and complete data center systems, with a strong focus on SoC, memory, and system architecture and technologies.

If you are passionate about solving complex architecture challenges in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment while contributing to building a substantial new business for one of the leading system-on-chip and computer architecture companies in the industry, we want to hear from you.

Role Description

• Partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, platform, and customer teams to deliver market-leading data center systems
• Translate product and workload requirements into SoC and system specifications, and drive feature-set requirements into technology, IP, platform, and software teams
• Execute SoC and system architecture studies, product definition, and implementation guidance, quantifying performance, power, area, cost, capacity, memory bandwidth, network topology/bandwidth/latency, and scalability tradeoffs while driving analysis methods and tools
• Follow designs through implementation and production, correlate observed system performance with models and targets, identify root causes of gaps, and drive performance to closure
• Execute competitive analysis across SoC, platform, system, compute, memory, data center networking, software, and deployment considerations
• Support and mentor technical contributors and generate innovations and patents

Minimum Qualifications

• MS or PhD in EE, ECE, CE, CS, or a related field
• 7+ years of relevant experience in SoC, platform, or system architecture; AI accelerators; memory architecture; or memory technologies
• Ability to collaborate across teams, build alignment, and contribute to technical direction
• Computer and system architecture expertise spanning one or more of processors, accelerators, memory systems, data center network fabrics, interconnects, hardware/software interfaces, platform topology, and SoC and system implementation tradeoffs
• Ability to execute quantitative SoC, system, and competitive studies using high-level calculators, spreadsheets, analytical models, profilers, and functional or performance simulators
• Experience developing architecture methodologies, tools, and analysis frameworks and translating findings into actionable recommendations
• Experience correlating modeled and measured system performance, isolating hardware and software bottlenecks, and driving cross-functional performance closure through production
• Excellent technical communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills, including presenting to technical and business stakeholders
• Self-directed execution, mentorship of others, and rigorous attention to accuracy

Additional Qualifications

• Understanding of generative AI and machine-learning workloads, especially Large Language Model inference and accelerator bottlenecks
• Experience in processor, accelerator, or system architecture, including ISA design, microarchitecture, performance modeling, system topology, scale-up or scale-out networks, or hardware/software co-design
• Knowledge of DRAM and memory-controller architecture, bandwidth, latency, and power tradeoffs, protocols such as LPDDR, HBM, DDR, or GDDR, and emerging technologies such as processing-in-memory, processing-near-memory, or 3D integration
• Expertise in one or more data center SoC or system technologies such as RAS, ECC, security, encryption, Ethernet or InfiniBand networking, RDMA, network interface controllers, switches, congestion control, chip-to-chip or die-to-die protocols, chiplets, PHYs, power and thermals, advanced packaging, platform management, or system scalability
• Programming ability for architecture modeling and automation; object-oriented C++ and Python preferred
• Fluent with using AI to accelerate workflows

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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