SOC Architect

leadIC Design Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

leadIC Design Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Lead SoC Architect to drive architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products.

You will lead top-level architecture, performance modeling, and subsystem integration while collaborating across RTL, verification, firmware, software, and systems teams. This tech lead role requires balancing leadership with individual contribution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
• Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
• Experience with CPU/GPU/NPU architectures, NoC/interconnect architectures, and memory systems such as DDR5/LPDDR5X.

Responsibilities

• Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
• Drive architecture tradeoff analysis for performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
• Develop and review system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
• Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the development cycle.
• Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck identification using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
• Define memory hierarchy, NoC/interconnect strategy, coherency architecture, and cache structures.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
• Work closely with verification teams to define architectural test plans and validation strategies.
• Support silicon bring-up, debug, performance tuning, and post-silicon optimization.
• Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.

Skills

SoC architecture

Performance modeling

Subsys integration

C/C++/SystemC

RTL development understanding

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

SystemC

Verilog/VHDL

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead SoC Architect to lead the architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in complex SoC architecture development, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, and system teams. This role involves defining scalable and high-performance architectures for advanced compute platforms including AI, GPU, multimedia, networking, RISC-V or datacenter-class SoCs. This is a tech lead role. The ideal candidate must be willing to be an individual contributor while leading others.

What You'll Do

• Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
• Drive architecture tradeoff analysis for performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
• Develop and review system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
• Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the development cycle.
• Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck identification using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
• Define memory hierarchy, NoC/interconnect strategy, coherency architecture, and cache structures.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
• Work closely with verification teams to define architectural test plans and validation strategies.
• Support silicon bring-up, debug, performance tuning, and post-silicon optimization.
• Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
• Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• CPU/GPU/NPU architectures
• NoC/interconnect architectures
• Cache coherency protocols (CHI/ACE/CXL)
• High-speed interfaces (PCIe, UCIe, Ethernet)
• Memory systems (DDR5, LPDDR5X, HBM)
• Power/performance optimization
• Strong knowledge of RTL development and verification methodologies.
• Experience with architecture modeling and performance analysis tools.
• Familiarity with firmware/software interaction in complex SoC systems.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI accelerator, GPU, networking, RISC-V or datacenter SoC architectures.
• Experience with chiplet-based or multi-die architectures.
• Familiarity with advanced process technologies and package integration.
• Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, and system-level validation.
• Knowledge of Linux drivers, runtime software, or system software architecture.
• Prior technical leadership experience across cross-functional engineering teams.

Technical Skills

• System architecture definition
• C/C++/SystemC modeling
• Performance analysis and simulation
• RTL and microarchitecture understanding
• AMBA/AXI/CHI protocols
• PCIe/CXL/UCIe
• Memory subsystem architecture
• HW/SW co-design
• Silicon bring-up and debugging