SoC Fabric Architect

Responsibilities

• You will be working closely with architects, micro-architects, and software, performance, validation, and physical design teams to own or actively participate in: 
• Architectural definition and specification of fabrics:
Inter- and intra-chip interconnects
Coherent, non-coherent, and bridging protocols
• Working with SoC architects to optimize fabrics for overall system architecture
• Developing, assessing, and refining fabric architectures with appropriate trade-off analysis to target power, performance, area, and timing goals
• Helping produce and review validation plans for functionality and performance

Requirements

• Knowledge of SoC architectures including caching hierarchy and memory subsystems, with relevant experience 
• Understanding of on-chip and off-chip topologies and interconnects with experience in architecture and design relevant subsystems
• Knowledge of and experience with cache-coherent and non-coherent protocols (e.g., directory based implementations to resolve conflicts, deadlocks, etc.)
• Experience with functional and performance simulators: design space exploration, modeling and analysis, knowledge of tools
• Relevant design experience exemplifying architectural/performance/power trade-offs.

Education and Experience

• Ph.D.: 3-5 years experience, or
• Master’s: 5-7 years industry experience, or
• Bachelor’s: 7-10 years industry experience