Senior AI Platform Architect for Engineering Systems

Arm; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 126,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Principal Eng Plat AI Architect to set direction for embedding AI across engineering platforms, toolchains and workflows. You will translate rapid AI advances into scalable, secure target architectures and reusable patterns across silicon design, software development, CI/CD, and developer tools.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive roadmaps, mentor teams, and ensure production-ready AI-enabled solutions while balancing cost, latency and security

Qualifications

• A record of leading architecture for complex engineering platforms, developer environments or technical-computing ecosystems at scale.
• Experience designing production AI solutions, including generative AI, agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation, model integration and evaluation.
• Strong architecture knowledge across source control, CI/CD, artefact management, build systems, developer tooling, APIs, events, IDE and command-line workflows.
• Experience designing for demanding distributed or compute-intensive workloads, including throughput, latency, concurrency, scheduling, capacity, resilience and cost.
• Knowledge of identity, authorisation, secrets, privileged execution, software supply-chain controls, auditability and safe failure for AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience defining target architectures, reference patterns and non-functional requirements, and guiding services from experimentation into reliable production operation.
• The ability to influence senior Engineering and technology leaders, translate between specialists and enterprise teams, and build commitment without reporting-line authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target architecture and roadmaps for AI-enabled engineering across software development, build, verification, test, design and engineering operations.
• Turn Engineering priorities and external market insight into clear choices on build, buy, reuse, platform fit and lifecycle, reducing fragmentation and avoidable vendor dependency.
• Create practical patterns for engineering agents, retrieval, model access, tool use, orchestration, context, evaluation, observability and production support.
• Define supported integration patterns across source control, CI/CD, artefact management, IDEs, command-line tools, APIs, schedulers, technical compute and specialist engineering platforms.
• Set architecture for identity propagation, secrets, permissions, tool and command execution, human approval, traceability, failure handling and safe shutdown.
• Shape how AI accesses source code, specifications, build and verification results, design artefacts, telemetry and engineering knowledge while protecting provenance, quality, confidentiality and intellectual property.
• Lead significant Engineering AI design decisions and contribute specialist expertise to design authority, balancing scale, latency, concurrency, resilience, cost and supportability from experiment through production.
• Partner with the Senior Principal Bus App AI Architect, Platform Architecture, Data, Security, Engineering and service leaders, and develop capability through mentoring and reusable guidance.

Skills

Architecting complex platforms

Production AI solutions

CI/CD & DevTools

Distributed systems

Security & provenance

Reference patterns

Influence without authority

Job description

Arm in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Principal Eng Plat AI Architect to set direction for embedding AI across engineering platforms, toolchains and workflows. You will translate rapid AI advances into scalable, secure target architectures and reusable patterns across silicon design, software development, CI/CD, and developer tools.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive roadmaps, mentor teams, and ensure production-ready AI-enabled solutions while balancing cost, latency and security