Senior Principal System Architect

European Tech Recruit; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational semiconductor company based in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Principal System Architect. This role involves developing technology roadmaps, leading architectural design, and communicating technical concepts across teams. Candidates should have a proven track record in SoC architecture and excellent communication skills. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in smartphone/tablet SoC architecture or related work experience.
• Deep technical background and credibility.
• Proven ability to drive progress in an ambiguous environment.
• Collaborative and influential across organisations.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineering leadership and product planning teams to develop the technology roadmap.
• Translate technology requirements into platform architecture, encompassing hardware, software, tools and other components.
• Work proactively across the architecture and core technology teams.
• Evaluate architecture proposals and provide leadership.
• Represent the company with high technical credibility in customer meetings.
• Build high-level architecture specifications for engineering teams.
• Design experiments and analyses to answer architectural questions.

Skills

Smartphone/tablet SoC architecture

Collaborative and influential communication

Technical leadership

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Senior Principal System Architect - Principal Consultant | Software Engineering, AI & CV/ML, Semiconductors & Electronics

European Tech Recruit is working closely with a multinational semiconductor company based in Cambridge, looking for a talented Senior Principal System Architect to join their team.

In this role you will tackle challenging development work to help kickstart projects, run sophisticated proof‑of‑concepts, and be a technical leader from the front, focused specifically on next‑gen smartphone and tablet solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with engineering leadership and product planning teams to develop the technology roadmap.
• Translate technology requirements into platform architecture, encompassing hardware, software, tools and other components.
• Work proactively across the architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the needs of smartphones and large‑screen compute SoCs.
• Evaluate architecture proposals, internal and external IP features and provide influential leadership across hardware, software, and platform groups to align all parties to a common vision of architecture & technology development.
• Represent the company with high technical credibility in customer meetings, appropriately incorporating feedback.
• Build high level architecture specifications as required to enable engineering teams to design and verify platforms addressing client market segments including smartphones, large‑screen compute and embedded/home devices.
• Design experiments and analyses to answer architectural questions, and invent, develop, or drive the development of simulators, models, profilers, and other methods and tools as vital to implement the analyses.
• Communicate results and technical concepts clearly and credibly across audiences ranging from individual hardware or software development engineers to architecture community peers, and business leadership.

Qualifications:

• Proven track record in smartphone/tablet SoC architecture or related work experience.
• Deep technical background and credibility.
• Proven ability to drive progress in an ambiguous environment.
• Collaborative and influential across organisations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work across multiple teams.

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Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.