SoC Modeling Infrastructure Architect

Lab Summary: 

The Samsung SoC Architecture Lab explores innovative SoC architecture, key IP blocks (CPU, GPU, NPU), bus / memory subsystem and multimedia subsystems for future Samsung Galaxy products (Smartphones, IoT and future devices) echoing Samsung’s AI for All strategy. We are defining the high performance SoC architecture development for various Galaxy device lineups. This lab collaborates with key R&D teams around the globe and Samsung's strategic SoC partners to innovate and reinvent technology that will positively impact hundred-millions of people around the world via the Galaxy flagship products.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a SoC modeling Infrastructure Architect to develop infrastructure for workload breakdown, use case profiling, trace collection and ingestion in models, performance models integration, simulators integration and system level metrics analysis methodologies. Strong coding skills, understanding of mobile SoC, and CPU and Accelerators architecture in general is desired for success for this role.

Position Responsibilities:

• Define SoC specification requirements from ideation to Post silicon evaluation, for future Samsung smartphones and tablet and explore tradeoffs to propose innovative architectural optimizations
• Perform complex use case breakdown into tasks and explore relevant scheduling schemes as well as mapping to various IP blocks (CPU, GPU, NPU etc.)
• Keeping in view the memory and NoC performance, help IP teams integrate the IP models into top level SoC Model
• Understand end to end at system level, create infrastructure to correlate with silicon and/or system measured data
• Develop the SoC model environment that includes model integration, use case simulation, and debugging
• Develop necessary scripts to help speed up debugging and visualization of the metrics collected from SoC model environment
• Understand various trace formats and write parsers to convert them into desired formats consumable by modeling tools

Required Skills:

• Masters, or PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 8+ years of industry experience related to SoC modeling, performance analysis and system architecture for smartphone or XR products
• Understand the role of CPU, memory hierarchy and accelerators for optimizing the system level power and performance for a complex workload
• Experience with industry standard performance analysis and modelling tools
• Understand various levels of modeling (e.g. analytical, TLM, cycle accurate) and their tradeoffs
• Understanding of operating system concepts, especially schedulers
• Familiarity with Android and Linux environments, architecture, tracing/logging methodologies and system performance tools/benchmarks

Special Attributes:

• Experience with Gem5, RAMulator or another simulator is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Synopsis Platform Architect is a big plus
• Hands on with development using C/C++/SystemC, Python or TCL scripting is a plus