Soc Architect

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Soc Design Architect

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a seasoned SoC Design Lead with expertise or significant interest in leading the development of High end networking silicon. You have had significant success driving the execution of SoCs working with IP, Subsystem, Physical design teams. You are meticulous about Power, Performance and Area while driving schedule and managing cost. This senior role will stretch you as you lead for driving bleeding edge networking IP and silicon driving milestones across multiple geographies.

THE PERSON:

You have excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc.  You are highly adept at distilling the SOC design challenges driving respective teams to adhere to milestones, leveraging you technical expertise in solving SoC design issues and are proactive in communicating progress to upper management

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
• Comprehend the SOC as a complete system which includes HW (Silicon), FW, BIOS & SW and ensure that FW, BIOS & SW are aligned to enable all features, optimizing for performance and power
• Work cross functionally with IP/Domain architects to identify and assess complex technical issues/risks and develop architectural solutions to achieve product requirements
• Knowledge sharing and other contributions to Platform & System Architecture
• As an overall product owner, responsible for architecture analysis and technical solutions for marketing/feature change requests
• 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
• Support Post-Si teams for Product Performance, Power and functional issues debug/resolution

 PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 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
• Experience analyzing CPU, Networking or System-level Micro-Architectural features to identify performance bottlenecks within different workloads
• Demonstrated expertise in power management microarchitecture, 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:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in related discipline preferred
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