**About The Role**
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead SoC Architect to lead the architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in complex SoC architecture development, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, and system teams.
This role involves defining scalable and high-performance architectures for advanced compute platforms including AI, GPU, multimedia, networking, RISC-V or datacenter-class SoCs. This is a tech lead role. **The ideal candidate must be willing to be an individual contributor while leading others.**
**What You’ll Do**
* Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
* Drive architecture tradeoff analysis for performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
* Develop and review system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
* Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the development cycle.
* Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck identification using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
* Define memory hierarchy, NoC/interconnect strategy, coherency architecture, and cache structures.
* Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
* Work closely with verification teams to define architectural test plans and validation strategies.
* Support silicon bring-up, debug, performance tuning, and post-silicon optimization.
* Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.
**Required Qualifications**
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
* 10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
* Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
* Experience with one or more of the following:
* CPU/GPU/NPU architectures
* NoC/interconnect architectures
* Cache coherency protocols (CHI/ACE/CXL)
* High-speed interfaces (PCIe, UCIe, Ethernet)
* Memory systems (DDR5, LPDDR5X, HBM)
* Power/performance optimization
* Strong knowledge of RTL development and verification methodologies.
* Experience with architecture modeling and performance analysis tools.
* Familiarity with firmware/software interaction in complex SoC systems.
* Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**
* Experience with AI accelerator, GPU, networking, RISC-V or datacenter SoC architectures.
* Experience with chiplet-based or multi-die architectures.
* Familiarity with advanced process technologies and package integration.
* Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, and system-level validation.
* Knowledge of Linux drivers, runtime software, or system software architecture.
* Prior technical leadership experience across cross-functional engineering teams.
**Technical Skills**
* System architecture definition
* C/C++/SystemC modeling
* Performance analysis and simulation
* RTL and microarchitecture understanding
* AMBA/AXI/CHI protocols
* PCIe/CXL/UCIe
* Memory subsystem architecture
* HW/SW co-design
* Silicon bring-up and debugging
**Job Category:**Engineering
**Job Type:**Full Time
**Job Location:**Bangalore
Deep-tech Work India