Senior SoC Architect, RAS

• Define and drive SoC-level RAS hardware architecture across CPUs, interconnects, memory systems, IOs, safety islands, firmware interfaces, and platform-level components
• Own RAS features from concept through architecture specification, micro-architecture alignment, RTL implementation support, design verification, silicon validation, debug, and production readiness
• Develop architectural requirements for fault detection, correction, containment, isolation, telemetry, error reporting, recovery, graceful degradation, serviceability, and diagnostic observability
• Collaborate with design, verification, validation, firmware, software, and platform teams
• Analyze interactions between RAS mechanisms and performance, power, reset flows, clocks, memory hierarchy, interconnect behavior, firmware-visible controls, and platform software
• Create hardware specifications, architectural requirements, error-handling flows, design guidance, test plans, and architectural models using SystemC, C/C++, Python, or other relevant modeling environments
• Plan and review verification and validation strategies, including error injection, recovery validation, coverage analysis, resiliency modeling, and cross-functional architecture reviews
• Assist in failure analysis and silicon debug for lab, post-silicon, production, and field findings
• Develop diagnostic screens and localization methods for latent, intermittent, and environment-sensitive failures
• Apply RAS architecture principles to high-reliability, space-aware, and radiation-aware deployment environments
• Follow industry standards and best practices related to RAS, functional safety, semiconductor reliability, debuggability, verification, validation, and silicon testing
• Patent novel hardware architecture techniques improving system resiliency, observability, serviceability, and recovery

Requirements

• MS or PhD degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent experience
• At least 8+ years of SoC architecture, design, verification, reliability, silicon validation, or related hardware development experience
• Strong understanding of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) in the SoC context
• Experience defining and driving hardware architecture features through the full development lifecycle
• Strong understanding of overall SoC architecture and ability to reason across micro-architecture, full-chip integration, firmware interfaces, software-visible behavior, platform flows, and customer use cases
• Meaningful industry expertise in one or more SoC architecture areas such as RAS, safety, debug, clocks, resets, interconnects, memory controllers, IO technologies, platform integration, firmware-visible error handling, or diagnostic infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with design verification, silicon validation, fault injection, coverage analysis, resiliency modeling, diagnostic development, or reliability validation methodology
• Familiarity with radiation effects, space operation, or other high-reliability deployment environments is strongly valued
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively across architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, validation, and customer-facing teams

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in SoC-level RAS hardware architecture, encompassing fault detection, correction, and recovery mechanisms. Proficient in collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to drive hardware architecture from concept through production readiness.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• SoC Architecture
• Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)
• Design Verification
• Silicon Validation
• Fault Injection

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• SystemC
• C/C++
• Python
• Architectural Requirements Development
• Error Handling Flows
• Resiliency Modeling
• Diagnostic Development
• Coverage Analysis
• Silicon Debug
• Failure Analysis

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication
• Interpersonal Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering

Industry Keywords

• Functional Safety
• Semiconductor Reliability
• Debug
• High-Reliability Deployment
• Radiation Effects
• Platform Integration
• Firmware Interfaces
• Memory Controllers
• Interconnects
• IO Technologies