STAFF LEVEL SYSTEMS ARCHITECT – (SENSOR TECHNOLOGY) - CORK -IRELAND

Client:

Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor Telecoms Company requires a Staff Level Systems Architect within the Sensors Technology team for role in Cork City, Ireland.


Role:

The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company with core hardware design & verification, Software, Marketing and product planning teams to architect market-leading SoC solutions with best-in-class performance and power.

The candidate will drive efforts to develop and prototype new system solutions and approaches. These products will empower customers with a new class of powerful emerging workloads like augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, automotive, and IoT.  

These products will empower customers with a new class of powerful emerging workloads like that involve machine learning & AI models to support smart context solutions across various technologies like smartphones, IoT, wearables & automotive. This candidate will be in a highly visible position with an excellent opportunity to influence Qualcomm’s technical
 

Responsibilities:

• Architect market-leading smartphone, tablet, connected camera, wearable, IoT, Automotive and other SoC products with best-in-class performance and power
• Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture plans;
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies;
• Deploy simulators, profilers, or even real hardware to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions;
• Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.;
• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, analyse outstanding issues;
• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions;
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems;
• Collaborate within a rapidly growing and world-class computer architecture team!

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Experience:

• 7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience
• SOC Architecture background with system design experience involving embedded software on a large scale SoC systems
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate on projects with multiple teams and disciplines
• Outstanding critical thinking skills, ability to ask probing questions and desire for continuous learning
• Ability to develop and improve methodologies for experiments and analysis in the specific area of expertise

Areas of Expertise (the more the better):

Candidates should have one or more of the following areas of knowledge and/or expertise:

• SoC / Computer Architecture
• Multimedia Systems
• Information security
• Power management techniques
• Digital Hardware Design
• Verification/Test
• Operating systems
• Data structures
• Embedded Systems
• Serial Buses & Wi-Fi/BT communication protocols
• SystemC/C++
• Graphics Architecture/systems
• Power and/or performance optimization, simulation and modelling
• ARM CPU/Neon Algorithm Design/Optimization
• DSP Algorithm Design/Optimization
• GPU Exposure/Experience
• Open CL/GL Exposure
• Linux/Android Exposure/Experience
• Perl/Python/Other Scripting Knowledge
• Machine Learning