Job Description

About The Role

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We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated SoC Architect to lead the architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products. The ideal candidate will have robust expertise in complex SoC architecture development, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, and system teams.

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This role involves defining scalable and high-performance architectures for advanced compute platforms including AI, GPU, multimedia, networking, RISC-V or datacenter-class SoCs. This is a tech lead role. The ideal candidate must be willing to be an individual contributor while leading others.

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What You'll Do

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- Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
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- Drive architecture tradeoff analysis for performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
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- Develop and review system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
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- Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the development cycle.
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- Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck identification using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
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- Define memory hierarchy, NoC/interconnect strategy, coherency architecture, and cache structures.
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- Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
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- Work closely with verification teams to define architectural test plans and validation strategies.
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- Support silicon bring-up, debug, performance tuning, and post-silicon optimization.
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- Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.
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Required Qualifications

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- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
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- 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
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- Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
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- Experience with one or more of the following:
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- CPU/GPU/NPU architectures
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- NoC/interconnect architectures
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- Cache coherency protocols (CHI/ACE/CXL)
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- High-speed interfaces (PCIe, UCIe, Ethernet)
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- Memory systems (DDR5, LPDDR5X, HBM)
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- Power/performance optimization
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- Strong knowledge of RTL development and verification methodologies.
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- Experience with architecture modeling and performance analysis tools.
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- Familiarity with firmware/software interaction in complex SoC systems.
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- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
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Preferred Qualifications

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- Experience with AI accelerator, GPU, networking, RISC-V or datacenter SoC architectures.
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- Experience with chiplet-based or multi-die architectures.
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- Familiarity with advanced process technologies and package integration.
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- Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, and system-level validation.
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- Knowledge of Linux drivers, runtime software, or system software architecture.
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- Prior technical leadership experience across cross-functional engineering teams.
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Technical Skills

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- System architecture definition
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- C/C++/SystemC modeling
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- Performance analysis and simulation
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- RTL and microarchitecture understanding
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- AMBA/AXI/CHI protocols
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- PCIe/CXL/UCIe
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- Memory subsystem architecture
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- HW/SW co-design
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- Silicon bring-up and debugging
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📌 Director of SoC Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 leadIC Design
📍 Bengaluru