(Sr) Staff SOC Architect - AI Accelerators (Multiple Locations)
About The Position
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an experienced SoC Architect to help define and deliver next-generation AI datacenter products. The role drives architecture and feature definition for server technologies including security, Reliability/Availability/Serviceability (RAS), and virtualization. The architect works across hardware, firmware, software, systems, product teams, customers, and ODMs to develop scalable solutions for AI server and rack deployments. The role involves shaping architectural decisions, evaluating customer requirements, influencing product roadmaps, and driving implementation of critical datacenter capabilities across Qualcomm's AI infrastructure portfolio. The architect will design SoC architecture in one or more of the RAS, virtualization, or security domains.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in hardware design, testing, and commercialization.
- 3+ years of experience working on datacenter-related products such as servers or accelerators.
- In-depth knowledge of datacenter security, RAS, virtualization, telemetry, power, cooling, lifecycle, and deployments.
- Good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures.
- Willingness to work in a high-caliber international, multi-site team.
Nice To Haves
- Experience and knowledge of server SoC security, specifically confidential computing.
- Participation in the OCP Security Forum and Confidential Compute Forum.
- Experience and knowledge defining RAS infrastructure at the server SoC level.
- Experience and knowledge of PCIe protocols, including SR-IOV, S-IOV, IDE, and TDISP.
- Good knowledge of server SoC architectures focused on security, RAS, and virtualization.
- Good knowledge of Ethernet protocols, with emphasis on error recovery and virtualization.
- Ability to work with Product Marketing and datacenter customers to define requirements covering security, RAS, and virtualization.
Responsibilities
- Understand trends in datacenter security, RAS, and virtualization through customer and ODM engagements.
- Work with customers to determine hardware and software requirements.
- Analyze current AI server deployments in different datacenters.
- Architect enhancements required for deployment of next-generation AI products.
- Define RAS architecture for server SoCs, accelerator platforms, and AI infrastructure deployments.
- Develop error detection, containment, recovery, telemetry, and serviceability mechanisms.
- Drive architectural solutions that improve reliability and operational availability at system scale.
- Collaborate with firmware and software teams on fault management and recovery strategies.
- Define virtualization architecture supporting multi-tenant AI infrastructure deployments.
- Drive requirements for virtual machines, device virtualization, resource partitioning, and workload isolation.
- Develop scalable solutions enabling secure and efficient utilization of datacenter resources.
- Evaluate industry virtualization technologies and standards.
- Define security architecture for next-generation server SoCs and AI infrastructure products.
- Drive implementation of confidential computing and trusted execution technologies.
- Analyze emerging security threats and develop architectural mitigations.
- Collaborate with ecosystem partners to align security solutions with industry standards.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus).
- Competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home, and at play.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
