SoC Performance Modeling Software Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: SoC Performance Modeling Software Architect (Platform Architecture)

Description

You will build and architect performance modeling software for system-on-chip designs, enabling high-quality, timely data that drives hardware development. The work includes translating design space studies into well-written software models in high-performance C++, and supporting the full modeling lifecycle from early exploration to post-silicon correlation. You will focus on simulator performance, maintainability, and flexibility so hardware architects can iterate quickly on experiments.

Responsibilities

• Leverage C++ to maximize the utility of performance models

• Develop APIs usable by non-expert C++ developers

• Train AI agents and non-expert developers on idiomatic C++ code and methods

• Ensure the codebase structure supports AI-assisted development tools

• Write clear, self-documenting C++ with consistent conventions, meaningful naming, and well-organized modules

• Stay current on SoC IP and chip-level architecture

• Build data analysis pipelines, visualization approaches, and continuous regression testing

• Run performance simulations and analyze/present results

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree

• Experience in hardware architecture and design issues

• Experience coding in C++ and Python and binding C++ to other languages

• Experience with computer architecture and software engineering principles

• Experience with data structures and algorithms

• Experience using software models to collect behavioral characteristics and turning that data into compelling performance analysis

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the architecture of future devices and deliver world-class cache/memory systems

• Work across SOC architecture, design, power, and software teams in a highly collaborative environment