# SOC Architect

> Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-28

**Salary:** INR 4,000,000–6,000,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients**

**Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 6000000 (ie INR 40 - 60 LPA)**

Min Experience: 10+ years

Location: Bengaluru  
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead SoC Architect to lead the architecture definition and technical direction for next-generation semiconductor products. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in complex SoC architecture development, performance modeling, subsystem integration, and cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, and system teams.

This role involves defining scalable and high-performance architectures for advanced compute platforms including AI, GPU, multimedia, networking, RISC-V or datacenter-class SoCs.  **The ideal candidate must be willing to be an individual contributor while leading others.**

## Requirements

**What You'll Do**  
  
 

-   Define top-level SoC architecture and subsystem partitioning for complex semiconductor products.
-   Drive architecture tradeoff analysis for performance, power, area, bandwidth, latency, and scalability.
-   Develop and review system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and microarchitecture requirements.
-   Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, software, and system teams throughout the development cycle.
-   Lead performance modeling, workload analysis, and bottleneck identification using C/C++/SystemC or similar modeling environments.
-   Define memory hierarchy, NoC/interconnect strategy, coherency architecture, and cache structures.
-   Evaluate and integrate third-party IPs including CPU, GPU, NPU, PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, multimedia, and security subsystems.
-   Work closely with verification teams to define architectural test plans and validation strategies.
-   Support silicon bring-up, debug, performance tuning, and post-silicon optimization.
-   Contribute to long-term technology and product roadmap planning.   
      
     

**Required Qualifications**  
  
 

-   Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
-   10+ years of experience in SoC architecture, ASIC development, or complex semiconductor system design.
-   Strong understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem integration.
-   Experience with one or more of the following:
-   CPU/GPU/NPU architectures
-   NoC/interconnect architectures
-   Cache coherency protocols (CHI/ACE/CXL)
-   High-speed interfaces (PCIe, UCIe, Ethernet)
-   Memory systems (DDR5, LPDDR5X, HBM)
-   Power/performance optimization
-   Strong knowledge of RTL development and verification methodologies.
-   Experience with architecture modeling and performance analysis tools.
-   Familiarity with firmware/software interaction in complex SoC systems.
-   Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.   
      
     

**Preferred Qualifications**  
  
 

-   Experience with AI accelerator, GPU, networking, RISC-V or datacenter SoC architectures.
-   Experience with chiplet-based or multi-die architectures.
-   Familiarity with advanced process technologies and package integration.
-   Experience with emulation, FPGA prototyping, and system-level validation.
-   Knowledge of Linux drivers, runtime software, or system software architecture.
-   Prior technical leadership experience across cross-functional engineering teams.   
      
     

**Technical Skills**  
  
 

-   System architecture definition
-   C/C++/SystemC modeling
-   Performance analysis and simulation
-   RTL and microarchitecture understanding
-   AMBA/AXI/CHI protocols
-   PCIe/CXL/UCIe
-   Memory subsystem architecture
-   HW/SW co-design
-   Silicon bring-up and debugging

### Must-have skills

soc architect, performance modeling, Memory architect

### Good-to-have skills

System Architecture, Platform Architecture, SoC Integration

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/010352BAD2/apply)

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