Senior Principal AI & Hardware Co-Design Architect

Arm; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 168,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in Cambridge seeks a Senior Principal Software Architect to shape how applications and frameworks connect to Arm's AI acceleration hardware. This role spans the full software and hardware stack, including AI models, runtimes, compilers, and accelerators, with emphasis on architecture direction across platforms.

The successful candidate will lead and review designs, influence decisions across teams, and collaborate with customers and partners to capture emerging requirements and drive

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software architecture, systems software or hardware/software co-design.
• Deep knowledge of computer and system architecture; processors and memory systems.
• Familiarity with PyTorch, ExecuTorch, LiteRT, ONNX or ONNX Runtime.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and review designs with senior engineers.
• Serve as trusted technical authority guiding decisions across teams.
• Work across hardware and software to enable co-design and reuse.
• Engage with customers and ecosystem partners to understand requirements.

Skills

C/C++

PyTorch

ONNX

MLIR

LLVM

Hardware/software co-design

Tools

ExecuTorch

LiteRT

ONNX Runtime

Job description

Arm in Cambridge seeks a Senior Principal Software Architect to shape how applications and frameworks connect to Arm's AI acceleration hardware. This role spans the full software and hardware stack, including AI models, runtimes, compilers, and accelerators, with emphasis on architecture direction across platforms.

The successful candidate will lead and review designs, influence decisions across teams, and collaborate with customers and partners to capture emerging requirements and drive