Principal Engineer, SoC Micro-Architect

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Date posted Nov. 05, 2025

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Design Engineering

Responsibilities

• As a creative design engineer with a knowledge of subsystems and SoCs you will be part team developing Subsystems & SoCs.
• You will work with Architects to capture the requirements and develop Micro-architecture specifications for one or more SOC areas such as Power Management, Boot, Debug, Clocks, Resets, DDR, RAS, Security, Access Control, Die to Die etc.
• Key responsibilities will include writing micro-architecture and work with Design team to deliver high quality RTL.
• Collaborate with verification and Validation team to review test plans, and help debug design issues. Closely work with the Power and Performance analysis team to evaluate and improve Subsystem/SOC PPA.
• Contribute to developing and improving the design methodologies.
• Guide and support other members of the team for overall Program success. Balance other opportunities such as working with Project Management on activities, plans, and schedules

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electronics/Electrical Engineering.
• Experience of 12+ years working in design of complex compute subsystems or SoCs
• Expertise in developing Micro-architecture and Design specifications for the SoC Infrastructure areas such as Power Management, Boot, Debug, Clocks, Resets, DDR, RAS, Security, Access Control, Die to Die etc.
• Solid understanding of digital hardware design and Verilog HDL. Experience in development and Tapeout of Complex SoC and RTL Development.
• Experience leading and developing RTL for Subsystems or SoCs.
• Conversant with Lint, CDC and RDC flows.
• Good communication (written, verbal, presentations) skills.
• Experience with Perl, Python or other scripting language

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with ARM-based designs and/or ARM System Architectures
• Experience developing subsystems for PCIe, LPDDR, HBM, UCIe, Ethernet
• Experience with SystemVerilog and verification methodologies – UVM/OVM
• Experience leading small teams or projects
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas
• Synthesis and timing analysis
• Static design checks, including CDC, RDC, X-Propagation, Linting
• Power management techniques
• DFT and physical implementation

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