Principal SOC Architect, AI Accelerators (Multiple Locations

Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States of America / Hillsboro, Oregon, United States of America / Santa Clara, California, United States of America2026-04-15onsite

About the job

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced SoC architect to work on the next generation AI products in the datacenter. We are looking for a data center engineer whose expertise spans security, RAS and/or virtualization. The selected candidate will help define the architecture and drive requirements from card/server level to a full rack.

Responsibilities

Understand trends in datacenter security, RAS and virtualization through customer and ODM engagements

Work with customers to determine HW and SW requirements

Analysis of the current AI server deployments in different datacenters

Architect enhancements required for deployment of next-generation AI products

Design the SOC architecture for at least one or more of the following areas:

1.RASReliability analysis of the card, server and rack level systems

Design/architect for easy serviceability

Implement HW/SW techniques for improved availability to mitigate failures.

2.VirtualizationSupport multiple clients using VMs on the same HW platform

Leverage industry best practices for security and isolation between clients

3.SecurityConfidential compute or its equivalent based on datacenter requirements

Qualifications

Minimum

Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering, or related field.

10+ years HW design, testing and commercialization experience

3+ years of experience of working in datacenter related products - servers, accelerators etc.

In-depth knowledge of datacenter - security, RAS, virtualization, telemetry, power, cooling, lifecycle, deployments etc.

Good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures.

Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team

Preferred

Experience and knowledge of Server SOC security specifically in the area of Confidential Compute

Participation in OCP Security Forum and Confidential Compute Forum is a plus

Experience and knowledge in defining RAS infrastructure at the Server SoC level

Experience and knowledge of PCIe protocol spanning SRIOV, SIOV, IDE, TDISP etc.

Good knowledge of server SOC architectures focusing on security, RAS and virtualization

Good knowledge of Ethernet protocols with emphasis on error recovery and virtualization

Ability to work with PdM (Product Marketing) and datacenter customers to define requirements covering security, RAS and virtualization etc.