Qualcomm SoC Architect – Platform Architecture Cambridge UK & Bristol 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

593591022

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Skills/Experience:

• 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, such as functional and performance simulators, profilers, cache analyzers, 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

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

Possible assignments depending on need, experience, and skills:

• Architect market-leading mobile, compute, automotive, wearables, XR, IoT and other SoC products with best-in-class performance and power

• Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture plans

• Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of SoCs, CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.

• Carry out and present architectural investigations and studies (including literature and state-of-the-art surveys)

• Gain understanding of Qualcomm’s platform architectures and IPs to identify opportunities for advancement and improvement

• Communicate results and technical concepts clearly and credibly across audiences ranging from individual engineers to architecture peers and leads

• Review architectural proposals of architecture peers and collaborators

• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions

• Write and deliver architectural specifications which may include reference models/implementations

• Use quantitative analysis, including application of existing or newly developed analytical models to guide architectural exploration

• Develop architectural simulation models and/or perform simulations to support studies and proposals

• Advance architectural tooling and methodologies

• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems

Preferred Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 7+ 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

• Reset, Clocking and Boot Architecture

• 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

Benefits include:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Employee stock purchase scheme – opportunity to purchase discounted stock

• Matching pension scheme

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Relocation Assistance (If required)

• Additional 4 Global Well Being Days - dates set by the company

• Enhanced Maternity Leave

• Enhanced Paternity Leave

• Menopause Support

• Education Assistance

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Voluntary Health Checks

• Complimentary Period Products onsite

• Global Wellbeing Days

• Subsidised gym membership

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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.