HW System / SoC Architect

Search Staffing Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

None

Job summary

Search Staffing Pte Ltd is seeking a senior HW System/SoC Architect for our US-based client in Singapore. You will own the architecture of peripheral subsystems for ultra-low-power wearables and IoT devices, spanning audio, imaging, display, and high/low-speed interfaces.

This role is hands-on and individual-contributor, requiring deep expertise from transistor to system-level data movement to optimize power budgets and performance.

Qualifications

• A track record of authoring architecture specifications for SoCs, ASICs, or silicon IP that hardware teams implemented in RTL.
• 8+ years in SoC/ASIC architecture and design, or silicon IP development, for wearable, IoT, or mobile-class products.
• Hands-on experience architecting external interfaces: audio (I2S, PDM), imaging/display (MIPI CSI/DSI), and high/low-speed links (USB, SPI, I2C).
• Working knowledge of each interface on both sides of the package: board-level electrical constraints, cable/connector requirements, PHY integration, and OS driver models.
• Experience shipping low-power silicon architectures to market, from concept through post-silicon validation.
• Strong systems-level thinking across the hardware/software boundary.
• The ability to build consensus and drive alignment across distributed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Responsibilities

• Architecture specifications for the SoC’s peripheral subsystems: micro-architecture definition, flow and sequence diagrams, power and performance models, and pseudocode.
• Off-die interface definition — modes, electrical and protocol behavior, and integration requirements that account for boards, cables, connectors, PHYs, and the software driver model.
• Debug at RTL and gate level with the design team when implementation raises questions the specification must answer.
• Partnership with physical design to ensure robust, optimal implementation of what you specify.
• Power and performance trade-off analysis across full system dataflows — die, package, board, and software.
• IP investigation, assessment, and selection — build-vs-license recommendations with the analysis to back them.
• Integration specifications covering system interfaces and external power management
• Post-silicon analysis and support for delivery of SoC functionality into mass production
• Use case and test case definition in support of validation

Skills

System architecture

RTL collaboration

Low-power design

Cross-functional leadership

Education

BS in Electrical / Computer Engineering / CS

Job description

HW System / SoC Architect

Our client is a US-based pioneer and leading provider of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions. We are seeking qualified candidate to join their Singapore team to work on breakthrough technologies powering the next wave of intelligent devices.

Role Summary

We're looking for a senior SoC Architect to be the primary architectural voice for our Singapore engineering team. You'll own the architecture of our SoC's peripheral subsystems — audio, imaging and display, and high- and low-speed interfaces — designed for the extreme power budgets of battery-powered wearables and IoT devices.

On our sub-threshold silicon, external interfaces are often the single biggest driver of system power. That makes decisions most teams treat as routine — when a link wakes, what stays retained, how data moves without waking the CPU — first-order architectural problems. This role sits at the center of that challenge, spanning everything from the transistor to the cable in your hand.

This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role.

Responsibilities

• Architecture specifications for the SoC’s peripheral subsystems: micro-architecture definition, flow and sequence diagrams, power and performance models, and pseudocode — the documents RTL design and verification teams implement from
• Off-die interface definition — modes, electrical and protocol behavior, and integration requirements that account for boards, cables, connectors, PHYs, and the software driver model
• Debug at RTL and gate level with the design team when implementation raises questions the specification must answer
• Partnership with physical design to ensure robust, optimal implementation of what you specify
• Power and performance trade-off analysis across full system dataflows — die, package, board, and software — guiding both hardware and software development
• IP investigation, assessment, and selection — build-vs-license recommendations with the analysis to back them
• Integration specifications covering system interfaces and external power management
• Post-silicon analysis and support for delivery of SoC functionality into mass production
• Use case and test case definition in support of validation

Who you’ll work with

RTL design and verification, physical design, our FPGA bring-up team, software architecture, and colleagues in Marketing, Advanced Development, and our HQ architecture team plus customers and field teams on key features and competitive positioning.

Requirements

• A track record of authoring architecture specifications for SoCs, ASICs, or silicon IP that hardware teams implemented in RTL — this is the core of the role
• 8+ years in SoC/ASIC architecture and design, or silicon IP development, for wearable, IoT, or mobile-class products (hardware/RTL background — not firmware or driver development)
• Hands-on experience architecting external interfaces: audio (I2S, PDM), imaging/display (MIPI CSI/DSI), and high/low-speed links (USB, SPI, I2C)
• Working knowledge of each interface on both sides of the package: board-level electrical constraints, cable/connector requirements (e.g., USB power delivery), PHY integration, and OS driver models
• Experience shipping low-power silicon architectures to market, from concept through post-silicon validation
• Strong systems-level thinking across the hardware/software boundary
• The ability to build consensus and drive alignment across distributed teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Nice to Have

• MS or PhD in a related field
• Experience with SoC fabric/interconnect, power management architecture, or UPF/power-aware design flows
• Hands-on work on advanced process nodes
• Familiarity with low-power mobile consumer systems, embedded imaging, or neural network processing