Staff/Principal Systems Architect

Job Title

Staff/Principal Systems Architect

Role Summary

Lead architecture definition and delivery for Imagination's PowerVR GPU family. Work with senior leadership, research, modelling, product, implementation and performance teams to define roadmap and produce next-generation GPU architecture and feature specifications.

Experience Level

Senior - years of experience not specified.

Responsibilities

Deliver and validate GPU architectural features, collaborate across teams, and influence long-term technology direction.

• Define, specify and deliver detailed architectural features for next-generation GPUs.
• Perform deep analysis to meet power, performance, area and bandwidth (PPA/Bandwidth) targets.
• Collaborate with research to map algorithms to efficient implementations.
• Work with modelling and performance teams to explore ideas and set performance targets.
• Coordinate with product to define a forward-looking technology roadmap.
• Assist implementation and verification teams during design and review cycles.
• Engage with customers and standards bodies (e.g., Khronos) as required.
• Document work in architecture specifications and support patenting of inventions.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience; optional items listed under "Nice-to-have."

• Practical experience with GPU architecture or similarly large, complex systems.
• Good understanding of modern 3D graphics and/or compute APIs such as Vulkan, D3D12 and OpenCL.
• Familiarity with digital ASIC design methodologies and constraints.
• Proven ability to plan, estimate and track independent work and architecture exploration activities that result in concrete feature specifications.
• Ability to make trade-offs considering design and verification challenges to maximise engineering ROI.
• Strong technical communication skills; able to justify decisions to varied audiences.

Nice-to-have:

• Strong mathematics and algorithm skills.
• Experience in digital video, driver or compiler performance analysis, or using hardware waves for performance analysis.
• Experience writing micro-architecture specifications.
• Familiarity with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Imagination Technologies

Headquarters: Kings Langley, UK

UK-based semiconductor IP company that develops GPU, AI and other silicon and software IP aimed at delivering high power, performance and area (PPA) efficiency for devices including smartphones, automotive and consumer electronics.