SoC Architect

MRL Consulting Group | Global Niche Technology Recruitment; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MRL Consulting Group | Global Niche Technology Recruitment invites an experienced SoC Architect to lead the architecture for our next-generation switch SoC. You will own the hardware lifecycle from concept through validation and post-silicon support.

Collaborate with RTL, physical design, systems, and software teams to define features and co-designs, perform detailed performance analyses, and publish customer documentation and technical guides.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with a Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• Proven track record deploying architectures and features in SoC products.
• Strong analytical, written and verbal skills with cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Steer the capability progression of our switch SoC and own end-to-end hardware architecture lifecycle.
• Collaborate with RTL, Physical Design, Systems and Software teams to enable new features and co-designs.
• Analyze performance, power, area trade-offs and model complex use cases.
• Author hardware specs and architectural validation plans.
• Review downstream specs and verification plans to ensure requirements are met.

Skills

Embedded CPU Subsystem

Platform Security

PCIe Interconnect

CXL Interconnect

Ethernet Interconnect

Data Network Switching

Power Management

ARM CPU Subsystem Architecture

Linux OS / drivers

Education

Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science

PhD Degree

Job description

Role and Responsibilities

The SoC Architect is a senior technical leader in the company, steering the capability progression of our leading-edge switch SoC and innovating to keep our products the technology leader in the market. The SoC Architect takes up the hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle ownership of our SoC products.

• You will collaborate with our marketing and business development teams to identify use cases with impactful value for customers.
• You will collaborate with all the technical teams (RTL, Physical Design, Systems, Software) to deliver new SoC architecture features and defining the Soft/Hardware Co-Designs to efficiently enable such use cases.
• You will perform detailed performance analysis of the architecture features, applications, benchmarks, power-performance-area trade-off. Where applicable, you will employ performance modeling for complex use cases.
• You will exercise your domain expertise in one or multiple areas. These include Embedded CPU Subsystem, Platform Security, PCIe Interconnect, CXL Interconnect, Ethernet Interconnect, Data Network Switching, Power Management.
• You will be authoring the hardware specifications and architectural validation plan.
• You will review the downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
• You will participate in the workgroups of different industry groups, including PCI-SIG, CXL, OCP, JEDEC, DMTF and other HPC and AI workgroups.
• You will apply for patents for the novel technologies in our architecture.
• Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation.
• You will also support the publication of customer documentation such as datasheets and programming guides.
• You will also support various post-silicon operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with a Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, or 8+ years of experience with a PhD Degree.
• Proven track record of successful deployment of architectures/architecture features in SoC products.
• Exceptional analytic, written, and verbal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and motivation the collaboration of a diverse set of technical teams.
• Proficiency in evaluating architecture proposals, 3rd party IP features and software/system algorithms and providing innovative guidance.
• Good ability in architecture analysis and system modeling
• Deep knowledge of the PCIe and CXL standards.
• Deep experience in defining security architecture for SoCs.
• Deep experience in ARM CPU subsystem architecture, including memory subsystem design, cache subsystems and software debug architecture.
• Experience with the Linux OS including drivers, as well as BIOS is a plus