Principal SoC Architect

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Principal SoC Architect

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4 Locations
In-Office
241K-326K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Internet of Things • Semiconductor
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The Role
The SoC Architect at Arm designs scalable SoC platforms across various market segments collaborates with teams on architecture development and drives innovation while ensuring timely delivery of projects.
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Job Overview:
At Arm an 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 and 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 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 with the expertise to leave no stone unturned in the quest to design world-leading SoCs. Ability to scale across multiple partners and deliver multiple engagements in parallel.
  • 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

Required Skills and Experience:
  • 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 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within 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.

"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience:
  • 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

In Return:
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 chipping in to current projects.
Arm is proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions defining how we work collaboratively to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary!
  • 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. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work: https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset
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Salary Range:
$241100-$326100 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process please email [email protected] . To note by sending us the requested information you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list examples of support include breaks between interviews having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
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. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. 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. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. 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.

Top Skills

2.5D/3D Packaging
Clocking
Coherent And Non-Coherent Interconnect
Debug
Dram Memory Technologies
Functional Profiling
Heterogeneous Compute Architectures
Memory Hierarchies
Multi-Level Caching Architecture
Pcie/Cxl
Performance Modeling
Power Management
Power Modeling
Security And Access Control
Virtualization
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HQ: Cambridge England
8314 Employees
Year Founded: 1990

What We Do

We bring brilliant people together in a global ecosystem that is sparking the world’s potential. Arm technology enables specialized processing built on the economics design freedom and accessibility of general-purpose compute that has so far led to more than 180 billion chips being shipped by our partners.

Why Work With Us

At Arm we build the future of computing powering everything from smartphones to AI. Our 10x mindset drives bold thinking and deep collaboration to solve complex problems together. With a people first culture flexible work and strong support for growth and wellbeing your ideas can make a global impact while your career thrives.

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04/19/2026

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