Arm · 22 hours ago
Principal SoC Architect
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$241K/yr - $326K/yr
10+ years expArm is a leading company in the semiconductor industry, seeking a Principal SoC Architect to design and develop high-volume, sophisticated SoC platforms. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure the development of production-quality silicon and driving innovation in SoC architecture.
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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 trend 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
Qualification
Required
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 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
Preferred
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
Company
Arm
Arm’s foundational technology is defining the future of computing. A future built by the greatest technology ecosystem in the world.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Rene Haas
CEO
Jason Child
EVP & CFO
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