Senior IC Architect — Automotive SoCs

Search Staffing Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Search Staffing Pte Ltd is seeking a Principal / Senior IC Architect Engineer for the automotive semiconductor sector in Singapore. The role focuses on owning the architecture of next-generation silicon products, balancing performance, power, area and cost to meet real-world product needs.

You will translate requirements into specs, explore trade-offs via modeling and simulations, and produce architecture documents for SoCs, processors, and graphics engines.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• Strong track record in chip or micro-architecture work, or equivalent experience in a senior IC design capacity.
• Solid grounding in computer architecture fundamentals — processors, graphics engines, memory hierarchies, interconnects and coherency.
• Familiarity with performance modeling and analysis tooling
• A good working knowledge of how software and hardware interact
• Comfort scripting in Python, C++ or similar, for modeling and analysis work
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the confidence to guide technical discussions across teams
• A creative, structured approach to solving complex, multi-faceted engineering problems

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the architecture behind next-generation semiconductor products, balancing performance, power, area and cost.
• Translate business and product requirements into concrete technical specifications.
• Explore architectural trade-offs through high-level modeling and simulation.
• Produce detailed architecture specifications covering SoCs, processors, graphics engines, or other complex IP blocks.
• Act as a technical anchor for design and verification teams across the full product lifecycle.
• Track emerging technologies and industry direction, feeding insights back into the roadmap.
• Work with hardware, software and systems teams to keep architecture coherent end to end.
• Present technical proposals and documentation for stakeholders

Skills

Chip architecture

SoC design

Performance modeling

Python scripting

C++ scripting

Leadership

Cross-functional

Education

Master's or PhD in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

PhD in related field

Tools

Modeling tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Search Staffing Pte Ltd is seeking a Principal / Senior IC Architect Engineer for the automotive semiconductor sector in Singapore. The role focuses on owning the architecture of next-generation silicon products, balancing performance, power, area and cost to meet real-world product needs.

You will translate requirements into specs, explore trade-offs via modeling and simulations, and produce architecture documents for SoCs, processors, and graphics engines.