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 meaningful part in developing production-quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and 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 market segments.
• Work proactively across Arm’s architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting groundbreaking SoCs.
• Collaborate with a team of SoC architects to explore all aspects of world-leading SoC design, 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 showcasing 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 updated 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 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, both internal and external to Arm.

Nice to Have

• 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.
• 10x mindset guiding engineering, collaboration, and growth (see Arm’s 10x mindset).

Pay

Salary range: $308,600–$417,500 per year. Salary is one component of Arm’s total reward package, which will be shared during the recruitment and selection process.

Schedule

Arm’s hybrid working approach balances high performance and personal wellbeing. Teams determine their own hybrid working patterns based on work and team needs. Details will be shared upon application.