SoC Architect
Eightfold
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Richardson • California • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $164,000 - $358,000 per year
About the role
- Define and own SoC-level architecture for next-generation HBM products, including partitioning, interfaces, clocking, reset strategy, power architecture, and performance targets.
- Drive architecture tradeoff studies balancing performance, power, area, schedule, and risk across multiple product generations.
- Collaborate closely with RTL design, verification, firmware, and systems teams to ensure architectural intent is correctly implemented and validated.
- Serve as the technical authority for SoC-level decisions, resolving cross-team issues and guiding design convergence.
- Define and review micro-architecture specifications for major SoC blocks and subsystems.
- Enable pre-silicon validation strategies, including simulation, emulation, and early firmware bring-up, to reduce downstream risk.
- Partner with platform, system, and product teams to ensure SoC architecture aligns with customer and ecosystem requirements.
- Proactively identify architectural risks and drive mitigation plans early in the design cycle.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the organization.
Requirements
- Strong background in SoC architecture and design for complex, multi-block systems.
- Deep understanding of RTL-to-silicon flows, including design, verification, and debug.
- Experience working across design, verification, firmware, and system validation teams.
- Solid knowledge of high-speed interfaces, clocking, reset, power management, and performance analysis.
- Experience working with IP providers and seamlessly integrating complex IP from third parties into the SoC.
- Familiarity with hardware emulation and pre-silicon validation methodologies (e.g., Palladium, Veloce, Zebu) as architectural enablers.
- Knowledge of DRAM operation, preferably within the HBM product family.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop junior engineers.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid family leave
- Robust paid time-off program
- Paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SoC architectureRTL designverificationfirmwaremicro-architecture specificationshigh-speed interfacespower managementperformance analysishardware emulationpre-silicon validation
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical authoritycollaborationproblem-solvingrisk management