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SOC System Architect

ByteDance
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/11/2025 CLOSED ON 4/26/2025

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Responsibilities

About ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.

Join us.

About Pico

Parts of this role will require supporting across ByteDance, as well as TikTok. ByteDance is TikTok's parent company, whose mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life.

About The Team

Founded in April 2015, Pico is a leading VR company with independent innovation and R&D capabilities, focusing on VR all-in-one technology. Pico is committed to offering immersive and interactive VR experiences to our customers, including providing tailor-made solutions for our enterprise clients in the fields of education and healthcare.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to define/drive SOC requirement including but not limited to interface, customized -IP, memory bandwidth, and power requirement for MR products.
  • Define external interface, interconnect protocols and topologies for emerging MR technologies and system constrains
  • Define SOC data and control flow, power states given specified system feature, functions and usage scenarios
  • Define Hardware-software partitioning and drive efficient system/hardware/software architecture co-optimization to meet

product requirement

  • Perform power and performance analysis, access implementation trade-off for a SOC design and explore novel and

efficient approaches aligned with product requirement

  • Drive silicon design team/vendors to ensure the delivery of SOC requirements

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • MS or above in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent fields.
  • 5 years of experience in SoC architecture design.
  • Familiar with advanced process nodes, low power digital circuit design and validation flow and methodologies.
  • Open minded, enthusiastic about new technologies with excellent communication and written skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience of evaluating architecture trade-off of performance, power and area.
  • Experience and knowledge of external interface, on-chip memory system, networks, hardware/software partitioning.
  • Experience in image, display or AI acceleration subsystems including ISP, DPU, NPU and its micro-architecture.
  • Experience of FPGA programming and prototype.

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

ByteDance Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at dataecommerce.accommodations@bytedance.com

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $410000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  • Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
  • Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
  • Exercising sound judgment.

Salary : $194,000 - $410,000

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