Define SoC architecture and model bandwidth, latency, and data movement for automotive, robotics, vision, and Physical AI applications.
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role defines SoC architecture and translates workloads into quantitative requirements across compute, memory, bandwidth, interconnect, data movement, power, and end-to-end latency. The architectural scope focuses on SoCs for automotive, robotics, vision, and Physical AI applications.
What you'll do
- Translate Physical AI, automotive, robotics, and vision workloads into SoC compute, memory, bandwidth, interconnect, and latency requirements.
- Model end-to-end data flows across sensors, CPUs, AI accelerators, memory hierarchy, on-chip interconnect, and I/O.
- Analyze and optimize data placement and movement across DDR memory, caches, on-chip memory, accelerator-local memory, and buffers.
- Correlate AI compute requirements and accelerator performance with memory bandwidth, data movement, utilization, and system-level performance.
- Perform what-if and scaling analyses across camera count, resolution, frame rate, AI model characteristics, precision, memory configuration, and accelerator performance.
- Develop data-flow diagrams, bandwidth models, traffic timelines, latency budgets, and bottleneck analyses to evaluate performance, power, area, and cost trade-offs.
What you'll need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience with heterogeneous SoC architecture and system performance analysis.
- Knowledge of x86, ARM, or RISC-V processor architecture, cache and memory hierarchies, coherent interconnects, and heterogeneous acceleration.
- Experience with AI/ML inference, computer vision, robotics, automotive, multimedia/imaging, or other complex SoC workloads.
- Understanding of DDR/LPDDR, cache and memory behavior, NoC/interconnect traffic, latency, QoS, and data movement.
- Experience developing analytical or simulation-based performance models using Python, C/C++, SystemC, MATLAB, or similar tools.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with embedded system constraints including power, thermal limits, real-time performance, functional safety, and security.
- Experience contributing to architecture, design, verification, or implementation across the SoC development lifecycle.
Skills: SoC Architecture, NoC, DDR, Interconnect, Bandwidth Modeling, Physical AI
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 82-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
486
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Median days since first seen
82 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$230k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (486 roles · 67 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 40 | 486 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 273 | 3538 · 119 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 70 d | 82 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: SoC Architecture, NoC, DDR, Interconnect, Bandwidth Modeling, Physical AI
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 79 open roles · median 92 d
- NVIDIA · 67 open roles · median 84 d
- AMD (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 71 d
- Arm Holdings · 29 open roles · median 14 d
- Apple · 28 open roles · median 15 d
- Micron Technology · 20 open roles · median 114 d
How we counted: 486 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 67 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.