Lead Architect, Automotive HPC SoC (R&D Lab)

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LG’s Emerging Technology Team

LG Emerging Technology team is the catalyst for technological innovation within LG’s CTO organization. Located in Silicon Valley, we drive excellence across CTO organizations and business units by pioneering in select emerging technology areas. As the Center of Excellence (CoE), we define and shape key technology domains, setting strategic directions that foster impactful internal and external partnerships to deliver measurable business value.

Our Emerging Technology team is looking for an experienced Lead Architect for Automotive HPC SoC, located in Santa Clara, CA. This is a hybrid position.

The Lead Architect, Automotive HPC SoC, will lead and contribute to the research and development of automotive HPC SoC’s. Your contribution will have a significant impact on our research projects and product roadmaps.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead High-Performance SoC Architecture: Design high-performance, power-efficient, and reliable SoC architectures specifically for automotive applications, focusing on in-vehicle infotainment systems while ensuring compliance with industry standards and safety regulations.
• Optimize High-Performance Computing: Collaborate with hardware, software, and firmware engineering teams to integrate and optimize high-performance computing (HPC) functions within the automotive ecosystem, fostering a collaborative development environment.
• Drive Innovation in Automotive HPC: Explore and drive innovation in automotive HPC technology by investigating emerging trends such as AI, machine learning, and real-time processing to enhance vehicle performance and safety. Architecture heterogeneous compute systems combining CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and dedicated accelerators for perception, planning, and control algorithms.
• Demonstrate Leadership in Collaborative Development: Find and apply the best SoC architectures by collaborating with the HQ development teams. Actively engage in discussions to define project goals and deliverables, contributing innovative ideas while ensuring alignment with the HQ’s objectives and overall business goals.
• Leverage External Partners: Collaborate with external partners, including semiconductor vendors and IP suppliers, to integrate their technologies into our automotive HPC SoCs, ensuring seamless technology incorporation.
• Stay Informed on Industry Standards: Keep abreast of industry trends, safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262), and regulatory requirements, including security and FFI, to ensure compliance in SoC design

Education and Skills We’d Like You To Have:

• Education:
• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  A Ph.D. is a plus.
• Experience:
• Minimum 8 years of experience in SoC design, with a focus on high-performance computing systems.
• Proven track record in designing and architecting automotive or industrial SoCs.
• Experience in improving PPA competitiveness of compute subsystems of HPC SoCs.
• Familiarity with software-hardware co-design methodologies and tools to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Experience in chiplet-based development and verification is highly desirable
• Experience in software development for embedded systems, such as RTOS, AUTOSAR, and BSP, is desirable.
• Experience in AI/ML and real-time processing within SoC architectures is desirable. Knowledge of AI accelerator design for transformer networks or vision transformer is plus.
• Experience with automotive cybersecurity standard (ISO/SAE 21434) and secure boot architectures i