IoT SOC Architect

Realtek Singapore Private Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtek Singapore Private Limited is seeking an experienced SOC architect to lead hardware architecture for communication and/or switch SOCs. You will define complex block specs, collaborate with digital design, and drive verification and validation across teams.

The role emphasizes ownership from design through delivery, with hands-on work in system design, signal processing, and hardware/software integration. Join a dynamic, agile engineering team in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical engineering or computer science.
• Min 5 years of experience in SOC hardware architecture development for communication networking or switch SOCs.
• Strong ownership and accountability from design through validation and delivery.
• Deep understanding of chip hardware, system design, and SOC architecture projects.
• Experience driving architecture decisions across Software/Firmware/Hardware/Design teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand product requirements, study standards, propose ideas, and develop hardware architecture specs.
• Develop signal processing algorithms for communication products.
• Define design specs for complex hardware blocks and accelerators with power, performance and timing in mind.
• Provide technical leadership across development, assisting designers, verification and system validation engineers.
• Review verification plans, identify gaps, debug issues on pre/post silicon platforms, ensure standards conformance.
• Identify improvements in existing hardware modules and communicate architectural/design enhancements.

Skills

SOC architecture

Signal processing

System design

Verilog/VHDL

C/C++

SystemC

Python

Matlab

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical engineering or computer science

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Understand the product requirements, study relevant standards and specifications, propose innovative ideas, and develop detailed hardware architectural specifications

• Develop Signal Processing algorithms for communication products

• Define design specifications for complex hardware blocks and accelerators, in close collaboration with the digital design engineers for power, performance and timing requirements

• Provide technical leadership throughout the development, working closely and assisting designers, verification and system validation engineers, providing solutions and promptly resolving issues during the development of the SOC

• Reviewing verification and validation plans for the design verification and system teams, identifying gaps, helping to debug issues in the pre and post silicon platforms, and ensuring strict conformance with standards and specifications

• Understand the design specifications of existing hardware modules, identifying areas of improvements, communicating with the team and making architectural and design enhancements

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical engineering or computer science

• Proven ability to thrive in a small, agile engineering team, taking initiative, prioritizing tasks and handle evolving technical challenges, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability from design through validation and delivery.

• Min 5 years of experience in SOC hardware architecture development for communication networking or switch SOC, multimedia and/or communication SOCs

• Strong understanding in chip hardware and system design and hand on experience on SOC system design projects

• Good understanding of different SOC architectures, Signal processing, interconnects (NIC/NOC), buses and hardware/software/firmware partition

• Prior experience of driving system architecture decisions across Software/Firmware/Hardware/Design teams to build up the consensus and translate ideas into architecture specifications will be a major plus

• Prior experience in developing or validating display technologies such as MIPI DSI, CSI, Display Port or HDMI would be a major plus

• Prior experience with multimedia solutions such as image, video, mpeg; security solutions such as encryption engine, secure boot flow, or algorithm development for image processing or data compression would be a major plus

• Knowledge of embedded processor and firmware operation, processor sub-system, such as ARM cortex-A/M/R or RISC-V would be major plus

• Familiarity with interface peripherals, such as Ethernet/PCIe/I2S/ SPI/ I2C would be a plus

• Prior experience in SOC validation, emulation platforms, hardware testing and debugging, resolving customer issues, familiarity with lab equipment such as oscilloscope, logic analyser etc would certainly be an advantage

• Good communication and documentation skill, with proven experience of collaboration with architecture, software, firmware, design and validation teams

• Familiarity with Matlab, C/C++, System-C, VHDL/Verilog, Python, or relevant programming language

• Proven ability to thrive in a small, agile engineering team, taking initiative, prioritizing tasks and handle evolving technical challenges, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability from design through validation and delivery.