Sr. 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!

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 that will have significant impact on the technical direction and competitiveness of Qualcomm’s Automotive Compute products.

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

• 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 following areas 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, ISO
    26262)
  • 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., Trust Zone, OSEK, SAE J3601, ISO
    21434)
  • 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
• 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…