Senior Principal System Architect

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a SoC Architect to spearhead advancements in smartphone and tablet solutions. This role involves developing technology roadmaps, collaborating with engineering teams, and driving architectural innovations. Ideal candidates will possess a strong background in SoC architecture with exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Equal opportunities employer

Qualifications

• Proven track record in smartphone/tablet SoC Architecture.
• Expertise in Power, Thermal Management, and Chipset Architecture is desirable.
• Collaborative and influential across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop technology roadmap and architecture for hardware/software integration.
• Evaluate architecture proposals and provide leadership across teams.
• Design experiments to address architectural questions and drive development.

Skills

Smartphone/Tablet SoC Architecture

Technical Credibility

Team Collaboration

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/ECE/CE/CS

MS or PhD in related field

Job description

Job Overview:

Do you want to craft the next generation of smartphone and tablet solutions, extracting the maximum performance and power efficiency from the latest process and packaging technologies? In the Central Technology Group, we have a diverse set of engineers covering all aspects of SoC system architecture.

You have the chance to create high-impact changes daily by solving challenging technical problems in next generation hand-held devices! You will tackle challenging development work to help kickstart projects, run sophisticated proof-of-concepts, and be a technical leader from the front.

Responsibilities

• Engage with engineering leadership and product planning teams to develop technology roadmap.
• Translate technology requirements into platform architecture, encompassing hardware, software, tools and other components.
• 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 smartphones and large-screen compute SoCs. Evaluate architecture proposals, internal and external IP features and provide influential and inspirational leadership across hardware, software, and platform groups to align all parties to a common vision of architecture & technology development.
• Represent Arm 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.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven track record in smartphone/tablet SoC Architecture or related work experience
• Deep technical background and credibility
• Expertise in one or more of these technology domains would be desirable: Power, Thermal & Limits Management, Reset & Boot, 2.5D/3D advanced packaging and chiplets, Chipset Platform Architecture
• Proven track record to drive progress in an ambiguous environment
• Collaborative and influential across organisations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work across multiple teams

Nice to have:

• Bachelor of Science degree in EE/ECE/CE/CS or related field required; MS or PhD highly desired

In return:

Arm is at the heart of the world's most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the generation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We craft scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies. Our innovative technology is licensed by Arm Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip containing our intellectual property. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers, and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.

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Accommodations at Arm

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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.