Lead Architect, Custom Silicon

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Introduction:

The Custom Silicon Lead Architectis responsible fordefining and driving the architecture of next-generation custom silicon solutions including complex ASICs and SoCs. This role requires cross-disciplinary collaboration with design verification hardware firmware and software teams to deliver high-performance innovative and reliable custom silicon products.

Your Job:

• Define and own the architecture and technical specifications for custom silicon products from concept through tape-out.

• Lead requirement gathering trade-off analysis partitioning and high-level designoptimizing forperformance power area scalability and cost.

• Guidethe design and integration of major IP blocks processing subsystems memory and I/O high-speed interfaces and custom accelerators.

• Collaborate with stakeholders (systems product management software and firmware) to align architectural vision and feature sets with market and product needs.

• Oversee architectural execution to ensure design aligns with specifications and architectural intent.

• Investigate evaluate and integrate third-party IP and develop strategies for architecture validation bring-up and post-silicon debug.

• Mentor and provide technical leadership to cross-functional engineering teams

• Present technical concepts and progress to internal teams management and external partners.

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensure security safety and system-level design compliance in architecture adhering to relevant standards (e.g. ISO 26262 IEC 61508).

Required Qualifications:

• Deep experience architecting custom silicon ASIC or SoC designs (digital/mixed-signal).

• Expertise inhardware system partitioning IP integration interconnect protocols memory hierarchies and clock/power domain management.

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field

• Strong knowledge of top-down architecture flows performance modeling EDA tools and verification strategies.

• Familiarity with multi-disciplineintegration including analog RF and software/firmware/hardware interfaces.

• Thorough understanding of modern interface standards (AXI PCIe DDR/LpDDR MIPI USB etc.).

• Excellent problem-solving debugging and system-level thinking skills.

• Strong communication technical writing and project leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in custom silicon ASIC or SoC development witha track recordof leadingArchitecture.

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related field

• Demonstrated project leadership in multi-site or cross-disciplinary environments.

• Experience in domainssuch as PhysicalAI automotive networking storage security or advancedcompute.

• Involvement in strategic planning IP/vendor evaluations and cross-functional technical reviews.

• History of patents publications or industry engagement is a plus.