Silicon SoC Architect

About This Role

• The Role and Impact: The Silicon SoC Architect plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of Intel's System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
• In this position, you will define and drive end-to-end SoC architecture for highly optimized, modular, and scalable systems that power a diverse range of applications, from high-performance computing to energy-efficient, low-power products.
• By leveraging your expertise, you will help enable groundbreaking innovation and ensure Intel's technical leadership in the industry.
• Collaborating across disciplines, you will identify opportunities, analyze trade-offs, and deliver impactful solutions that address complex technical challenges.
• Your work will directly contribute to the development of world-class products, enhancing interoperability, functionality, and performance across the product lifecycle.
• Key Responsibilities: - Define and develop SoC architecture, including firmware, hardware, and platform specifications, to meet performance, power, area, timing, and configuration goals. - Evaluate feasibility trade-offs and explore innovative approaches and novel architectures for SoC. - Conceptualize and specify microarchitecture and architectural features for next-generation products designed for multiple segments. - Drive evaluation and integration of existing IP blocks into new SoCs and specify gaskets or glue logic where needed. - Develop tests, test plans, and testing infrastructure for new architectures/features for SoC. - Conduct functional modeling simulations and analyze test results using advanced statistical methods to benchmark performance and identify improvement areas. - Provide experimental proof-of-concept changes and design alternatives to meet technical constraints. - Influence and challenge cross-functional roadmaps and define technology targets for future SoCs. - Collaborate with architects, design engineers, system engineers, and verification engineers to improve overall SoC design and overcome constraints.