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Multimedia ASIC IP Hardware Architect, Silicon

Google
Full-time
On-site

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in ASIC hardware architecture and silicon design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
  • Experience with processor core architectures (such as ARM, x86, RISC-V, etc.) and IPs commonly used in SoC designs.
  • Experience architecting and designing low power ASIC hardware IP for complex SoCs in the following areas: camera ISP, video codecs, display, graphics and machine learning networks.
  • Experience in architecting ambient or always-on vision hardware and workflows for ultra low power SoC applications.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the hardware Multimedia/Graphics ASIC IP architecture that meet competitive power, performance, area and image quality goals, which will require owning the goals through to tape-out and product launch.
  • Collaborate with Graphics, Camera, Video, Display and ML software, system and algorithm engineers to co-develop and specify competitive hardware IP architectures for integration into complex SoCs.
  • Collaborate with GPU, TPU, camera ISP, video and display hardware IP design teams across global sites to drive the hardware IP architecture specifications into design implementation for complex SoCs.
  • Collaborate with SoC and System/Experience architects on meeting strenuous power, performance and area requirements at the SoC level for multimedia use cases and experiences.
  • Perform detailed data analysis and tradeoff evaluations to improve multimedia architecture solutions.
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