Automotive SOC Architect

**Company**: Qualcomm India Private Limited

**Job Area**: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

**General Summary**:
Skills/Experience Summary:

- Bachelor of Science degree in EE/ECE/CE/CS or related field required; MS or PhD highly desired
- Automotive SoC architecture & automotive platform experience
- Deep technical background and credibility
- Collaborative and influential across organizations
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Model of integrity in all interactions

Description:
Possible assignments depending on need, experience, and skills:

- Engage with the Automotive Business Unit engineering leadership, product management, and product planning teams to understand the product strategy, roadmap, and technology needs.
- Translate product requirements into platform architecture requirements, encompassing hardware, software, SoC, and other components.
- Define how the Automotive SoCs fit into the set of overall Qualcomm SoC architecture platforms, and enhance these platforms as necessary to address Automotive needs.
- Work proactively across Qualcomm’s architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the needs of Automotive SoCs.
- Evaluate architecture proposals, internal and external core IP and component suppliers.
- Represent Qualcomm with high technical credibility in customer meetings, appropriately incorporating feedback.
- Work closely with the Automotive Business Unit architecture, hardware, and software technical teams to invent and provide high-level engineering solutions to their architecture & technical challenges.
- Create high level architecture specifications as required to enable core and SoC engineering teams to design, verify, test, and productize SoCs for the Automotive IVI, Digital Cockpit, and AD/ADAS markets.
- Provide influential and inspirational leadership across hardware, software, and SoC organizations to align all parties to a common vision of architecture & technology development.
- Design experiments and analyses to answer architectural questions, and invent, develop, or drive the development of simulators, models, profilers, and other methods and tools as necessary to execute the analyses.
- Communicate results and technical concepts clearly and credibly across audiences ranging from individual unit hardware or software engineers to architecture community peers, to high level business executives.
- Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems.

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Work Experience
- 20+ years work experience in the SoC HW VLSI design/validation domains of which at least 7 years on SoC Architecture
- 7+ years SoC Architecture, System Architecture, Systems Engineering, or related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
Master degree in Electrical/Electronics engineering

Areas of Expertise (the more the better):

- SoC / Computer Architecture
- Power and/or performance optimization, simulation, and modeling
- Software engineering & programming skills (e.g., C/C++, Python, Perl)
- Digital hardware design and/or verification
- In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI)
- Digital Cockpit
- Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
- Autonomous Driving (AD) architecture
- Automotive domain & zonal architectures
- Automotive standards and protocols (e.g., AUTOSAR, NCAP, ISO26262)
- Safety island & safety management architectures
- Functional Safety architecture & standards (e.g., ASIL, ISO26262)
- Security architecture & standards (e.g., TrustZone, OSEK, SAE J3601, ISO21434)
- Operating Systems (e.g., Linux)
- Real-time Systems (e.g., Linux-RT, QNX, RTOS)
- Arm CPU architecture (e.g., Cortex-A, Cortex-R)
- Microcontroller (MCUs) and electronic control unit (ECUs) architecture
- Gateways & Networking (e.g., Ethernet, CAN)
- Memory architecture (e.g., LPDDRx)
- Storage architecture (e.g., NANDFlash, NORFlash, SPI)
- Machine Learning (e.g., CNNs, Computer Vision)
- Auto Interface architecture like Ethernet, CAN, LIN, PCIe, DDR, SPI
- Auto qualification methodology
- System BIST architecture
- Deep understanding on Auto use cases and mapping them to HW and SW

**Skills**:HW Engineering and technology, Caches, DSP Architectures, Machine Learning, Memory Management, Microprocessor Systems Design

**Minimum Qualifications**:

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

OR
Master's 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.

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