Chip Lead

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THE ROLE:

We are seeking a seasoned SoC/Chip Design professional to lead the development of high speed networking silicon to address the data center AI networking market. You should have had significant success driving SOC design teams, interfacing with teams from RTL to GDS and helped in Post Silicon bring up and validation. You are meticulous about Power, Performance and Area while driving schedule and managing cost. This senior role will stretch you as you lead architecture teams in new directions, network with our world-class, patent-holding think-tank, and negotiate with design teams, marketing, and business unit executives.

THE PERSON:

You have excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc.  You are highly adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and engineers alike, ready to mentor and guide, and help to elevate the knowledge and skills of the team around you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define product features and capabilities, close architecture, and micro-architecture requirements, drive technical specifications for SoC and IP blocks to meet those requirements, and provide technical direction to execution teams
• Drive Design quality during front end integration via tools like LINT, CDC, LEC, SYNTHESIS etc.
• Collaborate with PD (Physical Design) team to establish a solid floorplan and align and drive hand off methodologies and metrics, improvements in schedules
• Work closely with Design teams for Area and Floorplan refinement, Verification Test plan reviews, Timing targets, Emulation plans, Pre-Si bug resolution and Performance/Power Verification sign offs
• Comprehend SOC as a complete system which includes ASIC and FW and ensure that FW is aligned to enable all features, optimizing for performance and power
• Work cross functionally with IP architects and designers to identify and assess complex technical issues/risks and develop system solutions to achieve product requirements
• Support Post-Si teams for Product Performance, Power and functional issues debug/resolution and participate in Post-SI bring up
• Understand SOC architecture, identify key components, deliverables of internal and external IP vendors, develop integration strategies and execute on them
• Work closely with management to escalate issues to schedule, identify mitigation plan

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience in SOC design
• Outstanding foundation in Systems & SoC architecture, with expertise in one or more of the following: CPU or Networking, Memory sub-system, Fabrics, Switches, Multimedia, I/O subsystems, Clocks, Resets, Virtualization and Security
• Understanding of High speed and Smart NIC technologies
• Solid understanding of End to End (RTL to GDS) flow and methodologies
• Demonstrated expertise in power management micro-architecture, low power design and power optimization, along with power impact at architecture, logic design, and circuit levels
• Excellent communication, management, and presentation skills.
• Adept at collaboration among top-thinkers and senior architects with strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

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