About The Role

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 strong expertise in complex SoC architecture development, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, and system teams.

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.

What You'll Do

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



- Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.

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Required Qualifications

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

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Preferred Qualifications

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

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Technical Skills

- System architecture definition - C/C++/SystemC modeling - Performance analysis and simulation - RTL and microarchitecture understanding - AMBA/AXI/CHI protocols - PCIe/CXL/UCIe - Memory subsystem architecture - HW/SW co-design - Silicon bring-up and debugging

📌 Director of SoC Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 leadIC Design
📍 Bengaluru