Qualcomm SOC Platform Architect 

United States, California, San Diego 

569762716

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

Responsibilities includes but not limited to:

• Create highly scalable SoC architecture in the area of SoC control, boot, reset, timebase management, debug, etc.

• Comprehend product requirements to steer generation of proper architecture.

• Perform trade-off analysis in the solution space to produce the most optimal architecture.

• Collaborate with architects, technical leads, hardware and software engineers from various functional areas in deriving the architectural solution that can best integrate in the overall SoC.

• Generate detail architectural specification and work closely with design team to implement the architecture.

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• Excellent communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills with ability to convey proposals and interact effectively across a distributed multi-discipline organization

• Strong foundation of silicon design principles and architectural trade-offs

• Ability to span and connect levels of abstraction across system-design, high-level languages, OS, HW/SW interface, micro-architecture, and silicon implementation

• Background in architecture (IP or SoC), and/or front-end design/verification (micro-architecture)

• Demonstrated deep technical knowledge and achievements at the SoC, sub-system or large IP levels as micro-architect or architect

• Ability to apply appropriate abstractions and quantitative analysis for problem definition and solutions

• Experience in using, improving, and developing a variety of tools for analysis and modeling, such as functional and performance simulators, profilers, etc.

• Programming ability for modeling and automation (OOP C++, Python preferred) with experience in software development best practices including reviews, unit-testing, version control, etc.

• Ability and desire to develop and improve architecture methodologies for experiments and analysis

• Preferred with experience in the area of SoC and subsystem boot, timebase management and network, security architecture, reset architecture, debug architecture especially with ARM coresight architecture, system level control/management with components such as BMC, ECU, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field required; Master’s degree or PhD highly desired

• 5+ years of SoC/IP architecture or micro-architecture/front-end-design

• Candidates with primarily a micro-architecture/design background must have contributions that demonstrate higher-level analysis and design

Additional Experience and Expertise(the more the better)

• SoC architectures including heterogeneous compute, NoC/interconnect, memory-systems, multicore, multi-die, cache hierarchies, shared memory, I/O, coherency, compression, security

• Resource and Power Management

• Security Architecture

• System-level debug

• Safety, reliability, and high-resilience/high-availability systems

• AI & Machine Learning

• Control and Real-time systems

• High-level Operating Systems (e.g., Android, Linux, Windows)

• Real-time operating systems (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS)

• Front-end Digital Hardware Design or Verification

• Arm system architectures (e.g., Cortex-A, Cortex-R, Cortex-M, CoreSight)

• RISC-V architecture

• High-speed I/O (USB, PCIe, CXL)

• External memory and storage architectures (e.g., LPDDR, NAND Flash, NOR Flash)

• Networking & Connectivity (e.g., Ethernet, WLAN, Cellular, CAN)

• Behavioral, functional and performance modeling

• Power and/or performance optimization through simulation & modeling

• Simulator architectures and frameworks (C++ or Python-based preferred)

• Analytical modeling for performance and power

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

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Pay range:

$139,000.00 - $208,000.00

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification