STAFF LEVEL SYSTEMS ARCHITECT – (SENSOR TECHNOLOGY) - CORK -IRELAND

Client: Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor Telecoms Company a Staff Level Systems Architect within the Sensors Technology team for role in Cork City, Ireland.

Role: The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company with core hardware design & verification, Software, Marketing and product planning teams to architect market-leading SoC solutions with best-in-class performance and power. The candidate will drive efforts to develop and prototype new system solutions and approaches. These products will empower customers with a new class of powerful emerging workloads like augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, automotive, and IoT. This candidate will be in a highly visible position with an excellent opportunity to influence Qualcomm’s technical.

Responsibilities:

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• Architect market-leading smartphone, tablet, connected camera, wearable, IoT, Automotive and other SoC products with best-in-class performance and power
  
• Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture plans
  
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies
  
• Deploy simulators, profilers, or even real hardware to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions
  
• Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc
  
• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, analyse outstanding issues
  
• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions
  
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems
  
• Collaborate within a rapidly growing and world-class computer architecture team
  

Education:

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• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  

Experience:

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• 7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience
  
• SOC Architecture background with system design experience involving embedded software on a large scale SoC systems
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate on projects with multiple teams and disciplines
  
• Outstanding critical thinking skills, ability to ask probing questions and desire for continuous learning
  
• Ability to develop and improve methodologies for experiments and analysis in the specific area of expertise
  

Areas of Expertise (the more the better): Candidates should have one or more of the following areas of knowledge and/or xcfaprz expertise:

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• SoC / Computer Architecture
  
• Multimedia Systems
  
• Information security
  
• Power management techniques
  
• Digital Hardware Design
  
• Verification/Test
  
• Operating systems
  
• Data structures
  
• Embedded Systems
  
• Serial Buses & Wi‑Fi/BT communication protocols
  
• SystemC/C++
  
• Graphics Architecture/systems
  
• Power and/or performance optimization, simulation and modelling
  
• ARM CPU/Neon Algorithm Design/Optimization
  
• DSP Algorithm Design/Optimization
  
• GPU Exposure/Experience
  
• Open CL/GL Exposure
  
• Linux/Android Exposure/Experience
  
• Perl/Python/Other Scripting Knowledge
  
• Machine Learning
  

Contact: For further information please contact Micheál at Software Placements Ltd on or email