SoC Architect

Arm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 308,600 - 417,500; Full time

Job summary

Arm is looking for a skilled SoC Architect in San Diego, California. This role focuses on architecting high-volume SoC platforms across multiple market segments including mobile and automotive. Responsibilities include designing SoC architecture, collaborating with teams, and driving innovation.

The ideal candidate has significant experience in scalable SoCs, strong communication skills, and holds a degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. The position offers a salary range of $308,600 to $417,500 per year.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in architecting scalable SoCs on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments.
• Expertise in multiple areas like caching architecture, functional profiling & debug, security, and access control.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Arm's SoC architecture based on Arm product IP.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize end-to-end platform solutions.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in SoC architecture.

Skills

Architecting scalable SoCs

Heterogeneous compute architectures

Power management

PCIe/CXL

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Job description

Job Overview

At Arm an SoC Architect is a technical role responsible for architecting and designing high‑volume, sophisticated SoC platforms on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments including mobile, automotive, datacenter, networking, and IoT.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Arm’s SoC architecture based on Arm product IP and system architecture to meet the requirements of best‑in‑class compute across our market segments.
• 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 groundbreaking SoCs.
• Collaborate with a team of SoC architects with the expertise to leave no stone unturned in the quest to design world‑leading SoCs. Ability to scale across multiple partners and deliver multiple engagements in parallel.
• Collaborate with core, technology and software teams to optimize the end‑to‑end platform solutions.
• Participate in identifying the key use cases and workloads showcasing the best of Arm IP/platform.
• Work with engineering teams across Arm to coordinate on‑time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs, ensuring that lessons learned from SoC development shape future IP.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in SoC architecture, staying up to date on industry trends and new technologies.
• Participate and drive partner/customer specific architecture discussions. Bring specifications to a mature stage allowing design and implementation teams to engage actively.

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in architecting scalable SoCs on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments.
• Expertise in multiple of the following areas: heterogeneous compute architectures, power management, clocking, coherent and non‑coherent interconnect, PCIe/CXL, multi‑level caching architecture, functional profiling & debug, security and access control, virtualization, memory hierarchies, sophisticated 2.5D/3D packaging, performance / power modeling & estimation, soft real‑time accelerators, DRAM memory technologies.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills. Able to present at executive level inside and outside of Arm.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within the semiconductor industry.
• Ability to influence at all levels, across engineering and business organizations internal and external to Arm, in their peer group, across execution, strategy and change.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

• Ability to work optimally in a fast‑paced environment with changing priorities and requirements.
• Prepared to challenge the status quo constructively at senior level.
• Proven track record of timely, to‑specification delivery of multiple sophisticated projects in parallel.

In Return

To join a newly forming Solution Engineering SoC architecture team with significant opportunities to impact the shape, definition, and culture of the team and help build our future success! This will be a fast‑paced and exciting environment with opportunities to demonstrate your strategic and innovative thinking while directly contributing to current projects.

• Partner and customer focus
• Collaboration and communication
• Creativity and innovation
• Team and personal development
• Impact and influence
• Deliver on your promises

Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work: https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset

Salary Range

$308,600-$417,500 per year

Equal Opportunities

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.