PE - Infra Systems Architect

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• Masters degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Infra Systems Architect for the next generation System-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones, tablets and other product categories.

This position will be responsible for

• Technical leadership role working with SOC architects, DMs and PDMs from early stages of the project to understand new usecases and feature requirements
• IP baseline selection, area projections and feature negotiations
• Convert the requirements to solutions and work with Infra IP development teams to flawlessly implement them
• Point of contact in Product core and architecture meetings in identifying and solving system level issues.
• Work with performance projection team to define experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, identify potential problems and drive solutions
• Work with SoC, Verification, Physical Design, SoC Floorplan and core teams in identifying optimizations and drive them into products.
• Point of contact for debugging Post Si issues at system level.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SOC / IP architecture, micro-architecture and design.
• Good understanding of SOC. Possesses expertise in 1 or more of the following technical areas : DDR, Security, access control, Interconnects, SMMU, SOC power management, boot, clock / reset, UBWC, Encryption, ECC
• Understanding of ARM architecture (Coherency, bus interconnects, Security, arch evolution)
• Good communication and leadership skills; work with minimal supervision
• Collaborate with internal (Perf, Design and System team) and external (SoC arch, Client Ips) stakeholders in developing solutions
• Understanding of traffic patterns and BW of different clients a plus
• Experience with high-performance and low power micro-architecture concepts
• Experience with Verilog, logic design principles with timing, area and power implications.
• Experience with scripting languages like Perl / Python / Java for developing proof of concept of the new ideas.
• Performance : explore high performance strategies and validate that the micro architecture meets targeted performance.
• Understanding of interconnect protocols like AHB / AXI / ACE / ACE-Lite / CHI.
• Good understanding of the design convergence cycle in terms of architecture, micro-architecture, synthesis, timing closure and verification
• Good Understanding of concurrency, bandwidth, latency and system level aspects
• Provides direction, mentoring, and leadership from small to medium sized groups.

Education Requirements :   Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering required, Masters or Doctorate preferred

Skills Required

arm architecture , System Design, Performance Analysis, Soc Architecture