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# Principal SoC Architect - Hardware

- **Company:** NVIDIA Ltd.
- **Location:** Westford, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $272,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, PCI Express, Software Architecture, SystemC, Systems Integration, Virtualization Technology, Application Specific Integrated Circuits
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g5kh7u

## About the Role

+ Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience)

 + 15+ years of architecture, design and/or verification experience

 + You have meaningful industry expertise in SoC architecture definition - Clocks, Resets, Automotive safety, Interconnects, Memory Controller, Boot, Virtualization, Power Management, Security, System Performance, IO technologies, (PCIE, Camera Interfaces, etc), Multimedia accelerator pipelines, CPU/GPU coherency, Platform integration

 + Comfortable communicating and solving issues at all levels of architecture definition from micro-architecture to system level to software architecture

 + Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

 + Automotive Functional Safety expertise, working experience with ISO26262 standard.

 + System C or C++ development skills, or relevant programming experience.

 + Inventions in one or more domains relevant to SoC architecture.

## Description

+ Architecture and requirements specification authoring, review, and System C model development (where applicable)

 + Architectural validation plan and execution

 + Review downstream specifications and verification plans in ASIC, software and/or platform to ensure requirements are followed

 + Post-Silicon production support with silicon debug and publishing of customer documentation

 + Industry standards tracking & 3rd party IP technical evaluation


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