About the Role
leadIC Design Pvt. Ltd. is looking for an experienced Lead SoC Architect to lead the architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products. This is a hands-on Individual Contributor (IC) leadership role requiring expertise in complex SoC architecture, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, firmware, software, and system teams.
The ideal candidate will have experience architecting scalable, high-performance compute platforms for AI, GPU, multimedia, networking, RISC-V, or datacenter-class SoCs.

Responsibilities
Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
Drive architecture trade-off analysis across performance, power, area (PPA), bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
Develop system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck analysis using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
Define memory hierarchy,



NoC/interconnect strategy, cache structures, and coherency architecture.
Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
Define architectural validation strategies and support silicon bring-up, debug, and post-silicon performance optimization.
Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning while providing technical leadership across engineering teams.

Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
Robust understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
Experience

📌 Principal SoC Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 leadIC Design
📍 Bengaluru