Sr. Staff SoC Architect Automotive Compute

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > SoC Architecture

General Summary:

The Automotive SoC Architecture team is responsible for defining SoC product architecture for Qualcomm’s Automotive Compute business covering In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI), the Digital Cockpit, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and Autonomous Driving (AD).

The team's mission involves synthesizing higher-level roadmap, product, customer, and system requirements into generalized, scalable architectural requirements and solutions. This involves both deep technical contribution and significant collaboration with the wider engineering and product management teams.

We are seeking an exceptional architect to join us on our mission to define the most advanced and capable Automotive compute platforms in the industry. If you’re passionate about shaping the future of the world’s most advanced Automotive technologies, we want to hear from you!

Role Description

A successful candidate will perform hands-on technical contribution and engage collaboratively with the other SoC & IP architects, designers, systems engineers, and software engineers to develop high-performance, cost-effective and scalable SoC architectures & solutions enabling market-leading Automotive Compute SoC products. In this highly visible and collaborative role, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to innovate, lead and deliver architectural solutions which will have significant impact on the technical direction and competitiveness of Qualcomm’s Automotive Compute products.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products (e.g., Power System, Shared Resource Management, Limits/Thermal Management, Hardware Islands).

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS degree in EE/ECE/CE/CS or related field required; MS or PhD highly desired
• 7+ years of SoC/IP architecture or micro-architecture/front-end-design
• Candidates with primarily a micro-architecture/design background must have contributions that demonstrate higher-level analysis and design

Experience in the below area is highly preferred

• Automotive SoC or IP design or architecture
• Safety, reliability, and high-resilience/high-availability systems
• High-performance real-time/deadline-driven systems
• Functional Safety and Automotive standards and protocols (e.g., AUTOSAR, NCAP, ISO26262)
• SoC architectures including heterogeneous compute, NoC, memory-systems, multicore, multi-die, cache hierarchies, I/O, coherency, security
• Performance optimization techniques
• Security architecture & standards (e.g., TrustZone, OSEK, SAE J3601, ISO21434)
• Operating Systems and RTOS
• Arm CPU and system architecture (e.g., Cortex-A, Cortex-R)
• Microcontroller (MCUs) and electronic control unit (ECUs) architecture
• Gateways & Networking (e.g., Ethernet, CAN)
• Memory technologies (e.g., LPDDR)
• Storage architecture (e.g., NANDFlash, NORFlash, SPI)
• High-speed I/O (USB, PCIe)
• Behavioral and performance modeling

Experience Preferred

• Excellent communication, documentation, and interpersonal skills with ability to convey proposals and interact effectively across a distributed multi-discipline organization
• Strong foundation of silicon design principles and architectural trade-offs
• Ability to span and connect levels of abstraction across system-design, high-level languages, OS, HW/SW interface, micro-architecture, and silicon implementation
• Background in architecture (IP or SoC), and/or front-end design/verification (micro-architecture)
• Demonstrated deep technical knowledge and achievements at the SoC, sub-system or large IP levels as micro-architect or architect
• Ability to apply appropriate abstractions and quantitative analysis for problem definition and solutions
• Experience in using, improving, and developing a variety of tools for analysis, such as functional and performance simulators, profilers, cache analyzers, etc.
• Programming ability for modeling and automation (OO Python or C++ preferred)
• Ability and desire to develop and improve architecture methodologies for experiments and analysis

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$179,000.00 - $268,400.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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