Silicon Architect

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Estimated 2026 take-home pay after Finnish income tax, pension, and unemployment insurance contributions. Assumes the national average municipal tax rate (7.57%), no church tax, and standard deductions only; your actual net pay depends on your municipality, church membership, age, and family situation.

• Specify SoC architectures spanning the full data path - from RF transceiver and PHY/MAC to the application engine and external interfaces
• Drive technology selection and define optimal functionality splits across hardware, software, and multi-die implementations
• Capture use cases and translate requirements for radio, baseband, and application engines into SoC architectural specifications
• Architect memory hierarchies, low‑power strategies, video codec pipelines (H.264 / H.265 / AV1), image/sensor interfaces, CPU/DSP/NPU selection, and optimize data flow between capture, encoding, and radio transmission
• Design SoC architectures for modem systems, including baseband, digital front‑end, and radio
• Collaborate closely with the SoC Architecture team and internal RF, SoC design, system modeling, software, and hardware teams, as well as external partners, across the full development lifecycle - from concept to tape‑out to field validation

• 8+ years of experience in SoC architecture or senior SoC design roles
• Deep understanding of SoC architectures
• Background in wireless communication systems and/or complex SoC architectures (e.g., mobile chips)
• Proven experience driving architectural decisions across cross‑functional teams
• Experience specifying and integrating third‑party IP, including technical review of vendor deliverables
• English proficiency at B1 level or higher

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