SoC Architects

Company: Arm Limited
Location: San Jose
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Job Overview:At Arm, a 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.Arm's SoC Architects play a meaningful role in the development of production-quality silicon with outstanding performance and power efficiency, both in partnership with Arm partners and producing Arm development silicon.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, and work together to ensure that what we learn from SoC development shapes how we develop 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 the 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.Arm is proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work collaboratively to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary!
      • Partner and customer focus
      • Collaboration and communication
      • Creativity and innovation
      • Team and personal development
      • Impact and influence
      • Deliver on your promisesSalary Range:$273,020-$369,380 per yearWe value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.Accommodations at ArmAt Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility.Hybrid Working at ArmArm'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.Equal Opportunities at ArmArm 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.
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