Senior SoC Architect: Scalable, High-Performance Silicon

Arm; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 308,600 - 417,500; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Architect to design high-volume, sophisticated SoCs for mobile, automotive, data center, networking and IoT markets. The role focuses on architecture development, cross-team collaboration, and optimizing end-to-end platform solutions to deliver world‑leading IP.

You will influence across engineering and business groups, drive innovation, and engage with partners to mature specifications for future IP in a fast-paced hybrid environment at Arm.

Qualifications

• Significant experience architecting scalable SoCs across multiple market segments.
• Expertise in heterogeneous compute architectures, power management, clocking, interconnect, PCIe/CXL, caching, profiling & debugging, security and virtualization.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills; able to present at executive level.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 10+ years in senior development or leadership in semiconductors.
• Ability to influence across engineering and business organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Arm’s SoC architecture based on Arm IP and system architecture to meet compute requirements across market segments.
• Collaborate with architecture and core technology teams to roadmap architecture platforms and feature development.
• Work with a team of SoC architects to scale across partners and deliver parallel engagements.
• Coordinate with core, technology and software teams to optimize end-to-end platform solutions.
• Identify key use cases and workloads showcasing Arm IP/platform.
• Ensure on-time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs and feed learnings into future IP development.
• Drive innovation and keep up with industry trends and new technologies.
• Lead partner/customer architecture discussions and mature specifications for design and implementation teams.

Skills

SoC architecture

Heterogeneous compute

Power management

Clocking

Interconnect PCIe/CXL

Caching architecture

Profiling & debugging

Security & access control

Virtualization

Memory hierarchies

2.5D/3D packaging

Performance modeling

Power modeling

Real-time accelerators

DRAM technologies

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Job description

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Architect to design high-volume, sophisticated SoCs for mobile, automotive, data center, networking and IoT markets. The role focuses on architecture development, cross-team collaboration, and optimizing end-to-end platform solutions to deliver world‑leading IP.

You will influence across engineering and business groups, drive innovation, and engage with partners to mature specifications for future IP in a fast-paced hybrid environment at Arm.