Technical Director, SoC Architect

Role Overview

As an MCU SoC Architect you will define and drive the architecture of next-generation microcontrollers. You will lead architectural decisions that balance realtime determinism performance power efficiency safety and security enabling scalable MCU products across industrial automotive and IoT markets.

You will work closely with SoC design teams system architects IP owners software architects and product planning to deliver competitive production ready architectures. This role requires deep expertise across MCU architectures SoC integration clock/reset/power design memory subsystems and microarchitectural tradeoffs with a strong focus on realtime and lowpower constraints.

Join our team to build highperformance powerefficient and secure MCU architectures at NXP.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Definition: Lead the definition and evolution of MCU SoC architectures aligned with product strategy market trends and industry standards.
• Microarchitecture & Compute: Design scalable and efficient multi-core compute architectures optimizing for TCMs SRAM hierarchy DMA interconnect bandwidth.
• Security Architecture: Define and integrate secure boot rootoftrust isolation and cryptographic acceleration. Ensure architectures support functional safety and lifecycle requirements.
• SoC Integration: Collaborate with hardware firmware and IP teams to ensure seamless integration of processing memory power management peripherals and interconnect subsystems. Good understanding of Analog IPs (ADC DAC PLL SERDES etc.) will be required.
• Performance & Power Optimization: Lead architectural strategies to optimize performance per watt. Balance frequency voltage memory and power states to meet RT and MCX power envelopes. Support early performance and power estimation to reduce program risk.
• Technical Leadership & Documentation: Develop architecture specifications best practices and technical documentation to guide development teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in MCU SoC architecture microarchitecture RTL design and/or physical design.
• Strong understanding of microprocessor and microcontroller architectures including CPU cores interconnects memory management bus protocols and peripheral integration.
• Experience in low-power design and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with Ethernet USB SPI and I3C protocols.
• Strong collaboration skills across silicon hardware and software teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ARM CortexM architectures
• Background in power and performance modeling HW/SW co-design and debugging
• Knowledge of functional safety and security standards
• Familiarity with WiFi integration networking protocols and secure wireless communication

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