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The Sr. Staff Engineer - SoC Safety Architect joins the SoC Architecture team to research, innovate, and provide architecture platforms for all SoCs across the organization. This role involves collaborating with hardware design, verification, software, and product management teams to develop cross-IP solutions for areas such as power systems, thermal management, memory ordering, and virtualization. The engineer will perform workload analysis, algorithm optimization, and use simulators and profilers to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions. Key technical requirements include experience with ISO26262 or IEC61508 safety standards, familiarity with architectures like ARM, x86, and RISC V, and knowledge of infrastructure blocks like DDR and NOC. The role focuses on solving complex safety and failure mode implications for high-performance, low-power SoCs used in automotive and industrial applications, ensuring robust functionality across heterogeneous compute subsystems.
SoC Architecture
Micro-architecture
Network-on-Chip
ARM
RISC-V
C++
Python
Linux
RTOS
Front-end Design
Verification
Power Management
Memory Systems
PCIe
USB
Ethernet
Machine Learning
Simulation
Modeling
unit-testing