System Architect, Custom Silicon

Senior Principal System Architect

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Introduction

We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Senior Principal System Architect to lead the definition architecture and technical strategy of complex semiconductor products spanning ASICs SoCs MCUs networking automotive aerospace and infrastructure markets. This role is responsible for translating customer and market requirements into scalable system architectures and driving technical alignment across hardware software silicon design verification validation and product engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines deep system-level expertise strong technical leadership and proven experience delivering successful semiconductor products from concept through production.

Your Job

• Lead end-to-end system architecture development for complex semiconductor products from concept through production.

• Translate customer market and business requirements into complete system-level architectures and technical specifications.

• Define product partitioning across hardware software firmware security and system management functions.

• Develop architecture specifications including performance power area cost reliability safety and scalability requirements.

• Drive processor memory interconnect security networking storage and peripheral subsystem architecture decisions.

• Lead architecture tradeoff studies and recommend optimal solutions balancing performance power cost schedule and risk.

• Define system use cases workloads operating modes performance models and validation criteria.

• Own system-level requirements management traceability and architecture documentation.

• Collaborate with customers business teams and engineering organizations to align product capabilities with market needs.

• Drive IP strategy including internal IP reuse third-party IP evaluation selection integration and roadmap alignment.

• Develop performance power bandwidth latency and capacity models to guide architecture decisions.

• Partner with Design Verification DFT Physical Design Software Product Engineering and Validation teams to ensure architecture implementation success.

• Lead technical reviews and architecture signoffs throughout the product lifecycle.

• Drive risk identification mitigation planning and technical decision-making across multiple programs.

• Mentor architects and senior technical contributors across the organization.

• Act as the primary technical interface for key customers partners and executive stakeholders on architecture-related topics.

Other Responsibilities

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support Environmental Health Safety & Security requirements.

• Foster innovation technical excellence and continuous improvement within the architecture organization.

• Contribute to long-term technology roadmaps and strategic planning activities.

Required Qualifications

• Proven track record defining and delivering complex semiconductor products from architecture through production.

• Strong experience in system architecture for ASICs SoCs MCUs networking automotive aerospace or data infrastructure products.

• Deep understanding of processor architectures memory hierarchies interconnect fabrics security architectures and system-level design methodologies.

• Experience developing architecture specifications requirements management frameworks and performance models.

• Strong knowledge of hardware/software co-design methodologies.

• Experience working across Architecture RTL Design Verification DFT Physical Design Software Validation and Product Engineering organizations.

• Ability to perform complex system tradeoff analysis involving power performance area cost reliability and schedule considerations.

• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated leadership of large cross-functional engineering teams.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field.

• 18 years of experience architecting networking automotive industrial aerospace AI/ML security or embedded computing products.

• Deep expertise in one or more domains including processor architecture memory systems networking protocols security architecture embedded systems or functional safety.

• Experience with third-party IP ecosystems standards bodies and industry specifications.

• Experience defining hardware/software platforms and reference architectures.

• Familiarity with functional safety cybersecurity and reliability requirements for mission-critical applications.

• Proven history of first-pass silicon success and successful product deployment.

• Experience working across global engineering organizations including the US and India.