SOC Architect / uArchitect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.
Company:
Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems EngineeringGeneral Summary:
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
- Create highly scalable SoC architecture for RTOS based SOCs for IOT/XR
- Comprehend product requirements to steer generation of proper architecture.
- Perform trade-off analysis in the solution space to produce the most optimal architecture
- Collaborate with architects, technical leads, hardware and software engineers from various functional areas in deriving the architectural solution that can best integrate in the overall SoC
- Generate detail architectural specification and work closely with design team to implement the architecture
Skills/Experience:
- 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 and modeling, such as functional and performance simulators, profilers, etc.
- Programming ability for modeling and automation (OOP C++, Python preferred) with experience in software development best practices including reviews, unit-testing, version control, etc.
- Ability and desire to develop and improve architecture methodologies for experiments and analysis
- Preferred with experience in the area of general SoC architecture (SoC Arch lead).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or related field required; Master’s degree or PhD highly desired
- 12-18 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
Additional Experience and Expertise (the more the better)
- SoC architectures including heterogeneous compute, NoC/interconnect, memory-systems, multicore, multi-die, cache hierarchies, shared memory, I/O, coherency, compression, security
- Resource and Power Management
- Security Architecture
- System-level debug
- AI & Machine Learning
- Control and Real-time systems
- Real-time operating systems (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS)
- Front-end Digital Hardware Design or Verification
- Arm system architectures (e.g., Cortex-A, Cortex-R, Cortex-M, SMMU, GIC, CoreSight)
- RISC-V architecture
- High-speed I/O (USB, PCIe)
- External memory and storage architectures (e.g., LPDDR, NAND Flash, NOR Flash)
- Networking & Connectivity (e.g., Ethernet, WLAN, Cellular, CAN)
- Behavioral, functional and performance modeling
- Power and/or performance optimization through simulation & modeling
- Analytical modeling for performance and power
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
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