MCU Architect, Custom Silicon

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Introduction:
The Custom Silicon MCU Architect is responsible for defining and driving the architecture of next-generation microcontroller-based silicon solutions, including real-time embedded SoCs and application-specific MCU platforms. This role requires close collaboration with design, verification, firmware, software, safety, security, and system teams to deliver scalable, power-effective, and reliable MCU products for industrial, automotive, and infrastructure applications.

Your Job:




- Define and own the architecture and technical specifications for MCU-based custom silicon products from concept through tape-out.
- Lead architecture trade-off analysis across real-time performance, power, area, cost, safety, security, and scalability.
- Drive the definition of compute subsystems, memory hierarchy, DMA architecture, interrupt architecture, debug infrastructure, and peripheral integration.
- Define clock, reset, and power architecture, including low-power modes, retention strategies, wake-up behavior, and power domain partitioning.
- Collaborate with firmware and software teams on hardware-software partitioning, boot flows, memory maps, register maps, and bring-up strategy.
- Guide integration of CPU cores, on-chip memories, interconnects, security IP, analog/mixed-signal peripherals, and system interfaces.
- Support architecture validation, emulation, silicon bring-up, post-silicon debug, and derivative product planning.
- Present technical concepts, architecture decisio

📌 MCU Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Globalfoundries
📍 Bengaluru