Technical Director, SoC Architect

As an MCU SoC Architect, you will define and drive the architecture of next-generation microcontrollers.

You will lead architectural decisions that balance real‐time determinism, performance, power efficiency, safety, and security, enabling scalable MCU products across industrial, automotive, and IoT markets.

You will work closely with SoC design teams, system architects, IP owners, software architects, and product planning to deliver competitive, production ready architectures.

This role requires deep expertise across MCU architectures, SoC integration, clock/reset/power design, memory subsystems, and microarchitectural trade‐offs, with a strong focus on real‐time and low‐power constraints.

Join our team to build high‐performance, power‐efficient, and secure MCU architectures at NXP.

• Architecture Definition: Lead the definition and evolution of MCU SoC architectures aligned with product strategy, market trends, and industry standards.
• Microarchitecture & Compute: Design scalable and efficient multi-core compute architectures optimizing for TCMs, SRAM hierarchy, DMA, interconnect bandwidth.
• Security Architecture: Define and integrate secure boot, root‐of‐trust, isolation, and cryptographic acceleration. Ensure architectures support functional safety and lifecycle requirements.
• SoC Integration: Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and IP teams to ensure seamless integration of processing, memory, power management, peripherals, and interconnect subsystems. Good understanding of Analog IPs (ADC, DAC, PLL, SERDES etc.) will be required.
• Performance & Power Optimization: Lead architectural strategies to optimize performance per watt. Balance frequency, voltage, memory, and power states to meet RT and MCX power envelopes. Support early performance and power estimation to reduce program risk.
• Technical Leadership & Documentation: Develop architecture specifications, best practices, and technical documentation to guide development teams.