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Principal SoC Architect

United States, San Diego 241100.00 - 326100.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 29, 2026
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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 and 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.

Job Responsibility

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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

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