SoC Architects

Job Overview

At Arm a SoC Architect is a technical role responsible for architecting and designing high‑volume, sophisticated SoC platforms on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments including mobile, automotive, datacenter, networking, and IoT.

Arm's SoC Architects play a meaningful role in the development of production‑quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and in producing Arm development silicon.

• 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 with the expertise to leave no stone unturned in the quest to design 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 showcasing the best of Arm IP/platform.
• Work with engineering teams across Arm to coordinate on‑time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs and ensure that lessons learned 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 and drive partner/customer specific architecture discussions, bringing specifications to a mature stage that allows design and implementation teams to engage actively.

• 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. Able to present at executive level inside and outside of Arm.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in Electrical or Computer Engineering and at least 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, in their peer group, across execution, strategy and change.

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

• 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 your strategic and innovative thinking while directly contributing to current projects.
• Arm’s set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions: partner and customer focus, collaboration and communication, creativity and innovation, team and personal development, impact and influence, deliver on your promises.
• Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow.

$273,020‑$369,380 per year.

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