CareerPlan

SOC Debug Engineer

San Diego, California, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10

Core

Define, model, design, optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for high performance, high quality, low power world class products, with a focus on SoC control, boot, reset, timebase management, debug, and micro-controllers.

Role type

Senior IC SoC Architect (Debug & Security)

Builds

Next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) products across compute, automotive, mobile, wearables, XR, and IoT, utilizing RISC-V architecture.

Domain

Semiconductor / Hardware Engineering / SoC Architecture

Required skills

SoC architecture design, ARM and RISC-V AP architecture, silicon design principles, trade-off analysis, cross-level abstraction (system-design to silicon), architectural specification generation, C++/Python programming for modeling and automation, functional and performance simulation, hardware/software interface design.

Preferred skills

Security architecture, system-level debug, boot and reset architecture, timebase management, micro-controllers, BMC/ECU components, heterogeneous compute, NoC/interconnect, memory-systems, multicore, multi-die, cache hierarchies, high-speed I/O (USB, PCIe, CXL), external memory architectures (LPDDR, NAND Flash), networking (Ethernet, WLAN, Cellular, CAN), real-time operating systems (Zephyr, FreeRTOS), AI/ML integration.

Technologies

RISC-V, ARM (Cortex-A/R/M, CoreSight), C++, Python, functional simulators, performance profilers, LPDDR, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, USB, PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, WLAN, Cellular, CAN, Android, Linux, Windows, Zephyr, FreeRTOS.

Responsibilities

Create highly scalable SoC architecture with expertise in SoC control, boot, reset, timebase management, debug, and micro-controllers; comprehend product requirements to steer generation of proper architecture; perform trade-off analysis in the solution space to produce the most optimal architecture; collaborate with architects, technical leads, hardware and software engineers to derive architectural solutions; generate detail architectural specification and work closely with design team to implement the architecture.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC