Hop
Automotive MCU Chip Architect
- Location
- Duesseldorf, DE
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 9 July 2026 (about 2 months ago)
Checked about a month agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint
About this role
What you'll do Key Responsibilities
System Architecture Definition
• Define the overall automotive MCU architecture from product, customer, and market requirements.
• Translate use cases into chip-level requirements covering performance, safety, security, power, cost, and scalability.
• Drive system partitioning across CPUs, memories, interconnects, peripherals, safety/security functions, debug, test, and power domains.
• Own architecture trade-offs and document decision rationale for reuse across MCU families and derivatives.
Subsystem Architecture Ownership
• Align subsystem concepts and interfaces across compute, memory, bus/interconnect, peripheral, safety, security, power/reset/clock, debug/trace, and DFT/test domains.
• Ensure subsystem requirements are implementation-feasible and verifiable at RTL, subsystem, chip, silicon, and software levels.
• Define hardware/software-visible architecture elements such as memory maps, register model principles, interrupts, DMA, boot flow, and access-control concepts.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
• Lead architecture reviews and resolve trade-offs between product management, system engineering, safety, security, design, verification, software, backend, test, and validation teams.
• Provide technical guidance during concept, design, verification, silicon bring-up, qualification, and customer support phases.
• Ensure architectural consistency, requirement traceability, and risk closure across global engineering teams.
What we require Required Technical Expertise
MCU / SoC Architecture
• Deep understanding of real-time MCU architectures, CPU subsystems, memories, peripheral integration, low-power design, product-family scalability, and silicon implementation constraints.
Automotive Functional Safety
• Practical ISO 26262 expertise including ASIL concepts, safety goals, technical safety requirements, FMEDA/DFA/FTA awareness, and definition of safety mechanisms at system and subsystem level.
Automotive Cybersecurity
• Understanding of secure boot, hardware root of trust, HSM integration, cryptographic accelerators, key management, lifecycle states, secure debug, and ISO/SAE 21434 concepts.
Digital Design and Implementation Awareness
• Ability to reason about RTL feasibility, timing, area, power, DFT, backend constraints, IP integration, verification closure, and bring-up observability.
Embedded Software Awareness
• Working knowledge of startup software, boot flows, drivers, AUTOSAR concepts, RTOS use, interrupts, memory protection, debug, and software-visible register behavior.
Required Experience
• 10+ years in semiconductor, MCU, SoC, or embedded systems development.
• Several years in system architecture, subsystem architecture, or senior technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience with automotive MCU or automotive SoC products.
• Experience across concept definition, architecture specification, design support, verification support, silicon bring-up, qualification, and customer support.
• Proven ability to work with international and cross-functional engineering teams.
Work location
- Duesseldorf, DE
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Published 9 July 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.