System on a Chip Architect

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

Job summary

MRL Consulting Group | Global Niche Technology Recruitment partners with a leading tech firm to hire a senior SoC Architect responsible for end-to-end hardware architecture of next-generation switch SoCs.

You will collaborate with RTL, PD, systems and software teams to deliver new features, perform detailed performance analyses, and model power-performance-area trade-offs. Post-silicon support and documentation are included.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture or related field.
• Master's degree required; PhD preferred.
• Proven track record delivering SoC architecture features.
• Strong analytical, writing and verbal skills; team player.
• Deep knowledge of PCIe and CXL standards; Linux familiarity a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with marketing and business development to identify high-impact use cases.
• Collaborate with RTL, Physical Design, Systems and Software to deliver new SoC features.
• Perform detailed performance analyses and power-performance-area trade-offs.
• Author hardware specifications and architectural validation plans.
• Review downstream specs and verification plans to ensure requirements.
• Participate in industry groups (PCI-SIG, CXL, OCP, JEDEC, DMTF).
• Apply for patents on novel architectures.
• Post-silicon support with silicon debugging and customer documentation.
• Publish datasheets and programming guides.
• Support various post-silicon operations.

Skills

SoC Architecture

Hardware Design

Performance Modeling

System Verilog

Cross-functional Lead

Linux Drivers

ARM Subsystem

BIOS

Education

Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering/CS

PhD in related field

Tools

PCIe

CXL

ARM Subsystem

BIOS

Job description

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