Senior SoC Interconnect Architect & Team Lead

Arm; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 242,760 - 314,160; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Interconnect Technology Team Lead to drive architecture, design, and execution of next-generation coherent and non-coherent interconnect solutions for advanced SoCs.

You will lead a high-performing team delivering robust interconnect IP and shaping future SoC architectures, collaborating with CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, and system teams to ensure performance and power efficiency.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of SoC architecture/design experience focusing on interconnects.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale mobile or compute SoCs.
• Deep knowledge of coherent interconnect protocols (AMBA ACE/CHI, CCIX, CXL).
• Experience with non-coherent interconnects (AXI, NoC).
• Strong performance, power, and system-level optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of coherent and non-coherent interconnect fabrics for complex SoCs.
• Define system-level interconnect strategies including QoS, latency, bandwidth, and power.
• Collaborate with CPU, GPU, memory, and system teams for integration and scaling.
• Drive adoption of industry standards (AMBA AXI/ACE/CHI).
• Own performance modeling, bottleneck analysis, and trade-offs.
• Guide microarchitecture, RTL design, and verification for interconnect IP.
• Mentor a team of architects and engineers.
• Contribute to roadmap planning for next-gen interconnect tech.

Skills

SoC Architecture

Interconnect IP

Leadership

Performance Modeling

System-level optimization

AMBA ACE CHI CXL

Job description

Arm is seeking an experienced SoC Interconnect Technology Team Lead to drive architecture, design, and execution of next-generation coherent and non-coherent interconnect solutions for advanced SoCs.

You will lead a high-performing team delivering robust interconnect IP and shaping future SoC architectures, collaborating with CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, and system teams to ensure performance and power efficiency.