Senior SoC Architect for AI Data Center

Qualcomm Incorporated; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks exceptional architects to shape AI accelerators and data center systems, focusing on SoC, memory, and system architecture. Collaborate across disciplines to translate workloads into specifications and guide implementation. Drive performance to closure through modeling and analysis. Join a leader in AI hardware architecture.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and delivering scalable, power-efficient systems for next-gen AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Responsibilities

• Partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, platform, and customer teams to deliver market-leading data center systems.
• Translate product and workload requirements into SoC and system specifications, and drive feature-set requirements into technology, IP, platform, and software teams.
• Execute SoC and system architecture studies, product definition, and implementation guidance, quantifying performance, power, area, cost, capacity, memory bandwidth, network topology/bandwidth/latency, and scalability tradeoffs while driving analysis methods and tools.
• Follow designs through implementation and production, correlate observed system performance with models and targets, identify root causes of gaps, and drive performance to closure.
• Execute competitive analysis across SoC, platform, system, compute, memory, data center networking, software, and deployment considerations.
• Support and mentor technical contributors and generate innovations and patents

Skills

System architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance modeling

Architecture methodologies/tools

C++ programming

Python programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS

Master's degree in EE/CS

PhD in EE/CS

Tools

C++

Python

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks exceptional architects to shape AI accelerators and data center systems, focusing on SoC, memory, and system architecture. Collaborate across disciplines to translate workloads into specifications and guide implementation. Drive performance to closure through modeling and analysis. Join a leader in AI hardware architecture.

The role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and delivering scalable, power-efficient systems for next-gen AI workloads.