Platform Architect, Principal

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Description

The Role

As part of the Platform Hardware Architecture team at Ampere, co-located in Taipei, Portland, and Santa Clara, you will join a small tightly-knit team that drives technology development and design execution for some of the most complex products on the planet.

What You’ll Do

• Provide platform & system architecture technical leadership for Ampere’s server products.
• Provide cross functional leadership to define, develop, and deliver the product requirements specifications for Ampere’s server processor based platforms, by working with CPU/SOC architecture, package design, platform design, firmware, and product marketing teams, and with external ODM/CM partners. These platforms support SoC characterization, SW development, platform validation, and customer reference designs.
• Work with package design team to ensure correctness of pin assignment, power delivery, and signal integrity requirements of package and package substrate
• Create and analyze platform architecture specifications and implementation tradeoffs to meet cost and performance targets.
• Define electrical block diagrams, PCB floor-plan, schematic, PCB layout & construction, and platform power budget.
• Work with platform team to develop, bring-up, and validate Ampere platforms to meet product requirements.
• Create test plan for the platform design and validate the design by conducting validation activities based on test plan
• Ensure Ampere platforms comply with all high speed interface specifications
• Provide engineering support for customers’ questions related to platform architecture and design
• Drive technology development activities to enable Ampere’s next-gen server processor platforms
  

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 12 years of server, datacenter, or high-performance computing platform & system architecture development experience across multiple full product life cycles, from concept to HVM mass production
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in server board design and bring-up for high speed interfaces such as DDR/PCIE/GbE/SERDES
• Experience leading Customer/ODM/CM product developments from definition through manufacturing release
• Hands-on experience in prototype bring-up and debugging, functional verification, and root cause failure analysis
• Familiarity with Electromagnetic Compliance (EMI/EMC) is a plus
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit theory and principles
• Experience with 1U and 2U server layouts and mechanical trade-off studies

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of ARM or similar CPU architecture
• Strong understanding of General SoC architecture
• Strong understanding of Multicore processor environment
• Strong platform design experience with PCI express standard
• Strong platform design experience with JEDEC standard for DDR memory
• Experience with electrical simulation tools and models
• Experience with performance modeling and analysis

Education

• BS/MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering/Electronics/Computer Science or similar discipline
  

About Us

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first cloud native processor. Built for the cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere gives customers the freedom to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications. With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.

Our Story

Like the scientist behind its name, Ampere employees are innovators. We understand the needs of cloud computing and different software requirements. We are inventing what comes next and looking at everything from the structure of memory and how efficient the system is, to considerations on speed, cost of electricity and ability to cool. Power, size, weight and cost are driving the technology requirements and the innovation to come.

Our world class team of engineers, with depth and expertise in the cloud and semiconductor industries, is not only focused on the development of new semiconductor designs but also building out the first software ecosystem for Arm®-based server processors. Through the Ampere approach to the cloud and edge, we give our customers the freedom to challenge the status quo and accelerate next-generation data centers for the most memory-intensive applications. Given the challenge we have outlined, we are building a culture of entrepreneurs that ensure customers come first, proactively approaching industry challenges in the areas of security, power and performance, delivering results that matter most.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.