Drive and lead end-to-end SOC execution with SOC team on design, DFT, Verification, Physical Design and interface to System and SW engineering teams for successful product delivery to customer.
Drive SOC from concept to productization. Work with customer requirements on product definition, feature, bounding box analysis and drive optimal solution.
Work with business and design team on optimal development cost solution considering in die size, power, performance optimization.
Work with architecture team on high level arch and uArch definition.
Work with IP team for IP requirement and deliverables.
Work with program management team for SOC planning, schedule, resource demand/supply, critical path analysis, dev cost and execution.
Work with SOC, System and SW team to deliver next generation high performance SOC designs.
Work with post-Si team to drive Si bring up and ramp to productization.
THE PERSON:
Leader with strong self-driving ability.
Need excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
Strong problem-solving skills.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Driving SOC cross-site execution from concept to tape-out and productization.
Contribute to Bounding box analysis, Design, DFT, Verification, Test-plan, Power Reduction, Timing Convergence & Floorplan, Tape-outs, System engineering and SW deliverables.
Running regular execution meetings, scrums, standing meetings and resolving bottlenecks.
Project planning, schedule, deliverables, risk and mitigations options. Presenting status update to execs.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Experience of successfully leading minimum 2 SOC execution from spec to tape-out and productization.
Expertise in SOC integration and implementation - IP Integration, SOC fabrics, Voltage and clock domain crossings, DFT, Power intent design, RTL Quality checks, Clock, Reset, Fuses, Synthesis, Timing Analysis, Design Partitioning, PPA optimization, PnR, Timing analysis, FP convergence, Physical design implementation and signoff.
Work with a team of Architects, Hardware and Software engineers to define the High-Level Architecture.
Strong hands-on experience in different SOC design activities, Verification aspects, Test plan review, Debug/triage, bottleneck resolution etc. Strong Problem Solving and Debugging Skills
Comfortable with design/implementation tools and flows like VCS, SOC Connectivity, Spyglass Lint/CDC/RDC, SgLP, Synthesis DC/FC, ICC, and Physical design implementation/signoff tools.
Expertise in SOC architecture, System bus and IO protocol understanding (e.g. AXI, PCIe, Memory etc.)
Comfort with Scripting such as Perl, shell, Python and TCL is a plus
Understanding of System integration, multi-die methodology, packaging, and system solution.
Experience in working with SW team for BIOS, FW, Driver, SW stack, QA and SW release is a plus.
Expertise in managing execution team, project planning, IP delivery timelines, deliverables and quality checks, Resource planning, critical path analysis, risks and mitigation plan.
Excellent communication and documentation Skills
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
~15+ years of strong experience in SOC, System/SW engineering & leading end to end SOC execution.