SOC Architect / uArchitect

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited is seeking a SOC Architect to create scalable architectures for RTOS-based SoCs used in IoT and XR devices. You will translate product requirements into architecture and perform trade-offs for optimal solutions, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver integrated designs.

The role involves producing detailed specifications and guiding the design team to implement the architecture, leveraging strong knowledge of SoC architectures and frontend design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field required; Master’s degree or PhD highly desired.
• 12-18 years of SoC/IP architecture or micro-architecture/front-end-design
• Candidates with micro-architecture/design background must show high-level analysis and design

Responsibilities

• Create highly scalable SoC architecture for RTOS-based SoCs for IoT/XR.
• Comprehend product requirements to steer generation of proper architecture.
• Perform trade-off analysis to produce the most optimal architecture.
• Collaborate with architects, tech leads, hardware and software engineers to derive integrated architecture.
• Generate detailed architectural specifications and work with design teams to implement the architecture.

Skills

SoC architecture

System design

C++ / Python

OS/RTOS knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering/CS

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Function/Performance simulators

Profilers

Job description

## SOC Architect / uArchitectBangalore, IndiaApply NowFind out how well you match with this jobJob ID: 3096981## **Company:**Qualcomm India Private Limited## **Job Area:**Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering**General Summary:****Responsibilities includes but not limited to:*** Create highly scalable SoC architecture **for RTOS based SOCs for IOT/XR*** 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 **Skills/Experience:*** 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 with experience in the area of general SoC architecture (SoC Arch lead). **Qualifications:*** Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field required; Master’s degree or PhD highly desired* 12-18 years of SoC/IP architecture or micro-architecture/front-end-design* Candidates with primarily a micro-architecture/design background must have contributions that demonstrate higher-level analysis and design **Additional Experience and Expertise**(the more the better)* SoC architectures including heterogeneous compute, NoC/interconnect, memory-systems, multicore, multi-die, cache hierarchies, shared memory, I/O, coherency, compression, security* **Resource and Power Management*** **Security Architecture*** System-level debug* AI & Machine Learning* Control and Real-time systems* Real-time operating systems (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS)* Front-end Digital Hardware Design or Verification* **Arm system architectures (e.g**., Cortex-A**, Cortex-R, Cortex-M, SMMU, GIC, CoreSight)*** **RISC-V architecture*** High-speed I/O (USB, PCIe)* **External memory and storage architectures (e.g., LPDDR, NAND Flash, NOR Flash)*** Networking & Connectivity (e.g., Ethernet, WLAN, Cellular, CAN)* Behavioral, functional and performance modeling* Power and/or performance optimization through simulation & modeling* Analytical modeling for performance and power**Minimum Qualifications:**• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.