Product SoC Architect

Job Details: Job Description: Join our team as a Senior IPU SoC Architect and drive the architectural vision for cutting-edge Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) and Data Processing Unit (DPU) platforms. In this strategic role, you'll define compute, memory, and coherency architectures while ensuring optimal end-to-end performance for next-generation data center solutions. You'll be instrumental in shaping architectural decisions that directly impact product scalability, performance efficiency, power optimization, and programmability at hyperscale deployments. As a technical leader, you'll establish performance benchmarks, guide cross-functional validation efforts, and collaborate with diverse engineering teams to identify system bottlenecks and architect innovative solutions. Your expertise in networking and x86 compute architectures will be crucial in positioning our products for market leadership. This is a high-impact role where you'll influence multi-generational architecture roadmaps, drive company-wide technical decisions, and establish yourself as a recognized authority in the field. Core Responsibilities Architecture Leadership & Strategy SoC Architecture Ownership: Lead comprehensive architecture development for IPU SoCs from initial concept through silicon implementation and post-silicon optimization Strategic Planning: Define multi-generation SoC architecture strategy, including processor selection, cache hierarchies, coherency models, and performance/power optimization Interconnect Design: Architect scalable coherent mesh and interconnect fabrics, optimizing for latency, bandwidth, scalability, and area efficiency across heterogeneous IPU components Memory Subsystem Architecture: Design advanced system memory architectures incorporating DDR/HBM technologies, memory controllers, cache coherency protocols, bandwidth allocation, QoS management, and isolation mechanisms Specialized System Design Virtualization Architecture: Drive SMMU/IOMMU architecture for virtualization-intensive IPU workloads, addressing address translation, ATS/PRI protocols, security boundaries, and multi-tenant isolation Workload Translation: Convert complex cloud, networking, storage, security, and virtualization requirements into actionable architectural specifications and design targets Trade-off Analysis: Conduct comprehensive architecture studies balancing performance, power consumption, silicon area, cost implications, and software compatibility Performance Engineering & Validation Establish representative, scalable performance benchmarks for IPU/DPU applications including cloud networking offloads, service chaining, storage acceleration, security processing, virtualization, telemetry, and control-plane operations KPI Development: Transform product requirements into measurable performance indicators and success metrics Testing Methodologies: Create comprehensive workload testing frameworks covering steady-state operations, burst scenarios, microbenchmarks, and end-to-end system validation, including stress testing and edge cases Performance Standards: Develop and maintain performance specifications, acceptance criteria, and release gate metrics Technical Leadership & Collaboration Cross-functional Leadership: Provide technical guidance across silicon design, firmware development, operating system integration, driver development, and system architecture teams Results Analysis: Lead complex performance analysis initiatives, identify root causes of bottlenecks, and propose architectural solutions to meet product objectives Ability to work autonomously while driving alignment across multiple engineering teams Strong communication and influence capabilities with experience driving architectural consensus among diverse stakeholders Qualifications: The Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position.  Minimum qualifications listed below would be obtained through a combination of industry ... (truncated, view full listing at source)