Qualcomm
(Sr) Staff SOC Architect - AI Accelerators (Multiple Locations)
$146K–$218K
San Diego, California +4 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Hillsboro, Oregon
Raleigh, North Carolina
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 8+ years in HW design, testing, and commercialization; 3+ years with datacenter-related products. The posting also lists alternative minimums of 4+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 3+ with a master’s, or 2+ with a PhD in a related field and ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related experience.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. The posting also lists a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field for its alternative minimum qualifications.
About the job
Defines and delivers SoC architecture for Qualcomm AI datacenter products, focusing on security, reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS), and virtualization.
What you'll do
- Assess datacenter trends and customer requirements, and analyze existing AI server deployments.
- Architect and define enhancements for next-generation AI products in one or more of security, RAS, and virtualization.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, systems, customers, ODMs, and product teams to drive implementation and product requirements.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in HW design, testing, and commercialization.
- 3+ years of experience working on datacenter-related products, such as servers or accelerators.
- In-depth knowledge of datacenter domains, including security, RAS, virtualization, and a good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures.
Nice to have
- Experience with Server SoC security, especially Confidential Compute, or defining Server SoC RAS infrastructure.
- Experience with PCIe protocols (SRIOV, SIOV, IDE, TDISP) or Ethernet protocols, including error recovery and virtualization.
Pay
$145,600.00 - $218,400.00 USD (pay range; salary)
Tools
ASIC, PCIe, SRIOV, SIOV, IDE, TDISP, Ethernet
AI focus
Architects SoCs and infrastructure capabilities for next-generation AI datacenter products, including security, RAS, virtualization, confidential computing, and trusted execution.
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