Qualcomm SOC Architect NexGen Cloud/AI Data Center 

United States, California, San Diego 

272288180

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > DSP Architecture and Design

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced SoC architect to work on the next generation AI products in the datacenter.

We are looking for a data center engineer whose expertise spans security, RAS and virtualization.

The selected candidate will help define the architecture and drive requirements from card/server level to a full rack.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience with high-performance microprocessor design.

Responsibilities:

• Understand trends in datacenter security, RAS and virtualization through customer and ODM engagements

• Work with customers to determine HW and SW requirements

• Analysis of the current AI server deployments in different datacenters

• Architect enhancements required for deployment of next-generation AI products

• Design and architecture systems encompassing the following features

• Security

• Confidential compute or its equivalent based on datacenter requirements

• RAS

• Reliability analysis of the card, server and rack level systems

• Design/architect for easy serviceability

• Implement HW/SW techniques for improved availability to mitigate failures.

• Virtualization

• Support multiple clients using VMs on the same HW platform

• Leverage industry best practices for security and isolation between clients

Minimum Requirements:

• Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering, or related field.

• 10+ years HW design, testing and commercialization experience

• 3+ years of experience of working in datacenter related products - servers, accelerators etc.

• In-depth knowledge of datacenter - security, RAS, virtualization, telemetry, power, cooling, lifecycle, deployments etc.

• Good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures.

• Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Strong knowledge of server security specifically in the area of Confidential Compute

• Participation in OCP Security Forum and Confidential Compute Forum is a plus

• Strong working experience in defining RAS requirements at the SoC, board, server and rack level

• Strong knowledge and understanding of PCIe protocol spanning SRIOV, SIOV, IDE, TDISP etc.

• Good knowledge of nVidia/AMD GPU architectures focusing on security, RAS and virtualization

• Good knowledge of Ethernet protocols with emphasis on error recovery and virtualization

• Good knowledge of x86 and ARM based servers

• Ability to work with PdM (Product Marketing) and datacenter customers to define requirements covering security, RAS and virtualization etc.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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$211,200.00 - $316,800.00