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SoC Architect

MRL Consulting Group | Global Niche Technology Recruitment
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025 CLOSED ON 1/9/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the SoC Architect position at MRL Consulting Group | Global Niche Technology Recruitment?

The SoC Architect is a senior technical leader in the company, steering the capability progression of our leading-edge switch SoC and innovating to keep our products the technology leader in the market. The SoC Architect takes up the hardware architecture end-to-end lifecycle ownership of our SoC products.

  • You will collaborate with our marketing and business development teams to identify use cases with impactful value for customers.
  • You will collaborate with all the technical teams (RTL, Physical Design, Systems, Software) to deliver new SoC architecture features and defining the Soft/Hardware Co-Designs to efficiently enable such use cases.
  • You will perform detailed performance analysis of the architecture features, applications, benchmarks, power-performance-area trade-off. Where applicable, you will employ performance modeling for complex use cases.
  • You will exercise your domain expertise in one or multiple areas. These include Embedded CPU Subsystem, Platform Security, PCIe Interconnect, CXL Interconnect, Ethernet Interconnect, Data Network Switching, Power Management.
  • You will be authoring the hardware specifications and architectural validation plan.
  • You will review the downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are fulfilled.
  • You will participate in the workgroups of different industry groups, including PCI-SIG, CXL, OCP, JEDEC, DMTF and other HPC and AI workgroups.
  • You will apply for patents for the novel technologies in our architecture.
  • Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation.
  • You will also support the publication of customer documentation such as datasheets and programming guides.
  • You will also support various post-silicon operations.


Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience with a Master’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering/Computer Science, or 8 years of experience with a PhD Degree.
  • Proven track record of successful deployment of architectures/architecture features in SoC products.
  • Exceptional analytic, written, and verbal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and motivation the collaboration of a diverse set of technical teams.
  • Proficiency in evaluating architecture proposals, 3rd party IP features and software/system algorithms and providing innovative guidance.
  • Good ability in architecture analysis and system modeling
  • Deep experience in defining security architecture for SoCs.
  • Deep experience in ARM CPU subsystem architecture, including memory subsystem design, cache subsystems and software debug architecture.
  • Experience with the Linux OS including drivers, as well as BIOS is a plus

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