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# Modelling Lead (SystemC / Virtual-Platform Architect

- **Company:** Lumilens Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microarchitecture, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Firmware, PCI Express, Reduced Instruction Set Computing, SystemC, Systems Integration, Peripherals, C++14
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/modelling-lead-systemc-virtual-platform-architect-lumilens-8413904

## About the Role

* 8+ years in architecture/performance modelling or virtual-platform development for complex SoCs.

 * Strong SystemC and TLM-2.0; solid modern C++.

 * Built or led a virtual platform / ESL model that real firmware ran on for pre-silicon bring-up.

 * Integrating a third-party ISS (e.g., Arm or RISC-V) into a SystemC/TLM platform; modelling buses, memory maps, and peripherals.

 * Architecture/performance modelling judgment - knowing what to abstract versus model faithfully.

 * Comfortable spanning hardware micro-architecture and embedded software.

Preferred

 * Familiarity with High-speed serial links and die-to-die / chiplet interconnects, and link-layer concepts such as FEC and equalization (e.g. PCIe, UALink, Ethernet or memory-semantic interconnects like CXL).

 * Experience feeding golden models into a UVM/DV verification flow.

 * Modelling for mixed-signal or optical/SerDes systems, including control-loop / plant modelling.

 * High-throughput datapath modelling.

## Description

* A SystemC/TLM-2.0 virtual platform - MCU (ISS-backed) + peripherals + memory map + a UCIe transactor + host stub - that firmware runs on pre-RTL.

 * Architecture/performance models: architectural trade studies, end-to-end datapath throughput and latency, FIFO/buffer sizing, design-space/configuration exploration.

 * Golden reference models handed to DV as scoreboards.

 * Behavioral models of the analog and control circuits.

 * Partner with the FE architect and firmware lead to keep model, RTL, and firmware views coherent.


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