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SoC System Hardware Architect

Sunnyvale,CA

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SoC System Hardware Architect Sunnyvale,CA

Do you want to be part of the AI revolution? Do you want to think out of the box, thriving on challenges in AI industry and have the desire to solve them? Do you want to work with a world-class team to explore the fast-growing AI hardware opportunities and impact on AI industry?

We’re looking forward to you joining us to collaborate, contribute, and revolutionize AI silicon and system.

Description

We are looking for a world-class SOC Silicon Architect to join our SoC team at Baidu’s Sunnyvale office. The successful candidate will be a motivated self-starter who will thrive in this highly technical environment. Your job responsibilities as a SOC Silicon Architect will be to provide technical leadership through all phases of Baidu’s AI SoC development, but primarily focused on specification & architecture definition.

Work with Baidu’s AI SoC marketing and software architects to define technical Requirements & Architecture Specifications for chip development. Work with the SoC design team & program management to develop costing estimates, power/area targets, resource plans and schedules for the technical implementation.

Drive SoC performance evaluation and provide recommendations for technology, IP, and vendor selection. Support design and verification in pre and post silicon to ensure features to meet the architectural requirements.

Knowledgeable with storage, networking, or hardware protocols e.g., Ethernet, DDR, PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB buses and NoC. Experience with ARM CPU Cores and IP (Coherent Mesh, GIC, SMMU, etc.) selection, configuration, and integration. Familiarity with interconnects (NoC), coherency, virtual memory, memory controllers.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in SoC Silicon architecture or IP design.

Demonstrated ability to develop detailed architecture, performance, power and cost estimates from higher level feature, function and performance requirements.

Familiar with methods for partitioning a solution across hardware and software, analog and digital or other multi-disciplinary boundaries in a system solution.

Excellent communication skills. Ability to read and write detailed architectural specs.

BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.

Excellent communication skills in both English and Chinese.

Culture Fit:

Mission alignment: If you want to be part of a team to accomplish this great mission, we will provide you the best possible platform to do that.

Self-directed: We work best with people that are driven, motivated, and aspire to greatness.

Hungry to learn: We are eager to see you learn new skills and grow.

Team orientation: We work in small, fast-moving teams. We watch out for each other and go after big goals together as a team.

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