Semiconductor Software Architecture

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Understand the product requirements, study relevant standards and specifications, propose innovative ideas, and develop detailed Software architectural specifications.
• Define SW design specifications for complex communication system, in close collaboration with the system development and digital design engineers for power, performance and timing requirements.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the SW architecture development, working closely and assisting SD/HW/FW designers, verification and system validation engineers, providing solutions and promptly resolving issues during the development of the communication system.
• Design and validate SW development for the communication system.
• Define and review SW and system verification and validation plans for the SW and HW design as well as system validation to ensure the strict conformance with standards and specifications.
• Understand the design specifications of existing hardware modules, identifying areas of improvements, communicating with the team and making SW architectural and design enhancements.

JOB REQUIREMENTS：

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical engineering or computer science
• Proven ability to thrive in a small, agile engineering team, taking initiative, prioritizing tasks and handle evolving technical challenges, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability from requirement, architecture, design through validation and delivery.
• Min 10 years of experience in SW architecture and development for networking or switch SOC and/or communication SOCs
• Strong understanding in SW eco system, chip hardware and system design.
• Good understanding of different SOC architectures, interconnects (NIC/NOC) and buses, hardware/software partition and firmware, low level API driver and HAL as well as real time OS, communication protocol and standard
• Good communication and documentation skill, with proven experience of collaboration with architecture, software, firmware, design and validation teams
• Familiarity with C/C++, Python, or relevant programming language

Value added item:

• Prior experience of driving SW architecture decisions across SD/SW/FW/HW teams, to build up the consensus and translate ideas into architecture specifications
• Prior experience with ethernet standard such as audio over ethernet, remote control protocol, security solutions such as encryption engine, secure boot flow, or algorithm development for real time scheduling
• Knowledge of embedded processor and firmware operation, processor sub-system, such as ARM cortex-A/M/R or RISC-V
• Familiarity with interface peripherals, such as Ethernet/I2S/ SPI/ I2C /PWM/ADC/PDM
• Prior experience in SW architecture, development and validation, emulation platforms, SW/HW co-testing and debugging, resolving customer issues for a real time application would certainly be an advantage