This role is for one of the Weekday's clients Min Experience: 9+ years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full time

We are looking for an experienced Lead SoC Architect to define and drive the architecture of next-generation semiconductor products. You will lead architecture definition, subsystem integration, and technical decision-making for complex SoCs targeting AI, GPU, networking, multimedia, RISC-V, and datacenter applications.

Requirements Key Responsibilities

- Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning
- Drive architecture trade-offs across performance, power, area, latency, and bandwidth
- Develop architecture specifications and interface definitions
- Collaborate with RTL, Verification, Physical Design, Firmware, Software, and System teams
- Perform architecture modeling and workload analysis using C/C++/SystemC
- Define memory hierarchy, NoC, coherency architecture, and cache strategy
- Integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, Multimedia, and Security IP
- Support verification planning, silicon bring-up, debug, and performance optimization




- Contribute to future product and technology roadmaps

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in SoC Architecture, ASIC Design, or complex semiconductor systems
- Strong expertise in SoC architecture and subsystem integration
- Experience with CPU/GPU/NPU architectures, NoC, Cache Coherency (CHI/ACE/CXL), PCIe, DDR5/LPDDR5X, RTL methodologies, and architecture modeling
- Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

- AI Accelerator, GPU, Networking, RISC-V, or Datacenter SoC experience
- Chiplet or Multi-die architecture
- FPGA prototyping and emulation
- Linux Drivers or System Software
- Technical leadership across cross-functional engineering teams

Must-have Skills SoC Architecture, ASIC Design, Performance Modeling Good-to-have Skills RISC-V, Cache Coherency, NoC

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