Principal Engineer, SOC Performance Architecture

Intel Corporation•Austin, TX

1d•$220,920 - $311,890•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Principal Engineer in SoC Performance Architecture, you will develop and drive end-to-end architectural power and performance specifications for modular, scalable datacenter products. The role influences technical direction for Intel and the broader industry, helping deliver performance, power efficiency, and scalability across market segments ranging from high-performance computing to ultra-low-power products. This position combines technical strategy, architectural innovation, and leadership. It includes modeling and evaluating SoC performance and power, defining architectural and microarchitectural features, and working across architecture, design, verification, and validation teams throughout the product lifecycle. The role also involves influencing future product roadmaps and mentoring technical leaders.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 12 or more years of relevant experience; or a master's degree and 10 or more years of relevant experience; or a PhD and 8 or more years of relevant experience.
10 or more years of experience in performance architecture and microarchitecture, bottleneck analysis, and optimization for server workloads.
10 or more years of experience with testing and simulation tools, advanced statistical modeling, and data-driven predictions.
10 or more years of experience delivering experimental proof-of-concept solutions and driving end-to-end execution of architectural designs.

Nice To Haves

Track record of influencing technical strategy and leading cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals.
10 or more years of experience mentoring and developing technical leaders and fostering innovation within a team or organization.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to challenge, inspire, and lead diverse groups.
Familiarity with industry trends and the ability to align technical vision with market demands to maintain leadership in performance, power optimization, and scalability.

Responsibilities

Drive development of SoC architecture power and performance specifications, including assessing feature viability through SoC and IP modeling and ensuring hardware-software interoperability throughout the product lifecycle.
Define and evaluate feasibility tradeoffs for performance, power, frequency, area, and features to meet datacenter product requirements across segments.
Conceptualize, invent, and specify modeling of architectural and microarchitectural features for varying product requirements and use cases.
Develop and document methodologies for emerging use cases, improving existing methods and extending the impact of performance and power predictive modeling.
Model SoC performance and power, analyze bottlenecks, and explore approaches for future workloads.
Create tests, test plans, and testing infrastructure for new architectures and features; conduct simulations and analyze results using advanced statistical models and data predictions.
Develop experimental proof-of-concept solutions and propose design alternatives that meet performance, power, area, and timing constraints.
Collaborate with architects, design, verification, and validation engineers to execute project requirements.
Deliver microarchitecture modeling and resolve issues during feature implementation to improve product design and overcome challenges.
Influence and challenge cross-functional roadmaps while defining technology targets for future datacenter products.
Mentor and develop technical leaders, foster community growth, and act as a change agent while exemplifying Intel values.