Architecture / design / development - architect

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. Collaborate with core, technology and software teams to optimize the end‑to‑end platform solutions.

Participate in identifying the 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 work together to ensure that what we learn from SoC development shapes how we develop future IP.

Drive innovation and continuous improvement in SoC architecture staying up to date on industry trend and new technologies.

Participate and drive partner/customer specific architecture discussions. Bring specifications to a mature stage allowing design and implementation teams to engage actively.

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.

Able to present at executive level inside and outside of Arm.

Bachelor's or Master’s degrees in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within the semiconductor industry.

Proven track record of timely, to‑specification delivery of multiple sophisticated projects in parallel.

To join a newly forming Solution Engineering SoC architecture team with significant opportunities to impact the shape, definition, and culture of the team and help build our future success! This will be a fast paced and exciting environment with opportunities to demonstrate your strategic and innovative thinking while directly contributing to current projects.

Partner and customer focus

Collaboration and communication

Creativity and innovation

Team and personal development

Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility.

Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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