ASIC System/Chip Architect

Location: Shanghai, China

An architect position to work on System/IC architectures in video, graphics, ISP, display coprocessor, mobile gaming, and AI visual enhancement.

Monthly tasks:

Visit customers and convert the customer/marketing requirements to chip features
Work with engineering teams on chip features, and itemize the cost for each feature
Partitioning the requirements to IP blocks, describe each IP block in the Chip/IP PRD
Estimate the chip cost and provide tradeoff options in product definition stage
Create functional spec for design and verification teams, review the IP design specs with IP owners and verification specs with verification owner
Be responsible & provide support for Image/Video processing IP RTL design and verification.
Support full-chip integration, maintain chip level c-model to support full chip simulation.
Co-work with algorithm, design, and verifications to ensure the chip implementation meets original architecture goals
Support debug work on chip level RTL design, integration, verification, and FPGA emulation.
Support FPGA validation and after-silicon chip validation, customer design-in, SW SDK

Qualifications (must-have):

Master/Ph.D. Degree in Electrical/Communication Engineering or related fields.
Minimum 5 years industry SoC development experience. Video processing SoC architecture/design experience is preferred.
Familiar with clock, CPU/GPU, reset, low power design
Experience in bus (AXI or OCP) fabric development, integration & performance optimization is a plus.
Experience in Perl/python is a plus.
Fluent speaking/writing in English and Good communication skills.

Qualifications (nice-to-have):

Good knowledge for C/C++ hardware modelling, effective coding for hardware implementation.
- Add debug dump/maintain existed C++ algorithm
- Bridge between the algorithm development team & IC design team, mapping the algorithm to micro-architecture for design.
Take part in the algorithm discussion and estimate the algorithm implementation cost
Game eco-system knowledge, understanding/learning the Unity/Unreal engines