SoC Architect

Arm SoC Architects are responsible for architecting and designing high-volume, sophisticated SoC platforms on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments including mobile, automotive, datacenter, networking, and IoT. This role plays a key part in developing production-quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and in producing Arm development silicon.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Arm’s SoC architecture based on Arm product IP and system architecture to meet the requirements of best-in-class compute across our market segments.
• Work proactively across Arm’s architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the needs of groundbreaking SoCs.
• Collaborate with a team of SoC architects to explore all aspects of design in the quest to create world-leading SoCs, scaling across multiple partners and delivering multiple engagements in parallel.
• Collaborate with core, technology, and software teams to optimize end-to-end platform solutions.
• Participate in identifying key use cases and workloads that showcase the best of Arm IP/platform.
• Work with engineering teams across Arm to coordinate on-time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs, ensuring learnings from SoC development shape future IP.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in SoC architecture, staying up to date on industry trends and new technologies.
• Participate in and drive partner/customer-specific architecture discussions, maturing specifications to enable active engagement by design and implementation teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience in architecting scalable SoCs on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments.
• Expertise in multiple of the following areas: heterogeneous compute architectures, power management, clocking, coherent and non-coherent interconnect, PCIe/CXL, multi-level caching architecture, functional profiling & debug, security and access control, virtualization, memory hierarchies, sophisticated 2.5D/3D packaging, performance/power modeling & estimation, soft real-time accelerators, DRAM memory technologies.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to present at an executive level inside and outside of Arm.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within the semiconductor industry.
• Ability to influence at all levels, across engineering and business organizations internal and external to Arm, including peers, execution, strategy, and change.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Ability to work optimally in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and requirements.
• Prepared to challenge the status quo constructively at a senior level.
• Proven track record of timely, to-specification delivery of multiple sophisticated projects in parallel.

Benefits

• Join a newly forming Solution Engineering SoC architecture team with significant opportunities to impact the shape, definition, and culture of the team.
• Fast-paced and exciting environment with opportunities to demonstrate strategic and innovative thinking while contributing directly to current projects.
• Arm’s culture is defined by behaviors that guide decisions: partner and customer focus, collaboration and communication, creativity and innovation, team and personal development, impact and influence, and delivering on promises.
• Arm’s 10x mindset guides how teams engineer, collaborate, and grow. Learn more about the 10x mindset.
• Hybrid working framework designed to support high performance and personal wellbeing, empowering teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns based on work and team needs.
• Accommodations available during the recruitment process. Email accommodations@arm.com for support.

Pay

Salary range: $323,000–$437,000 per year. Salary is one component of Arm’s total reward package, which will be shared during the recruitment and selection process.