The Role
Architect and design high-volume automotive SoC platforms for ADAS and IVI using Arm IP. Lead cross-functional architecture efforts, ensure FuSa-compliant mixed-criticality designs to ASIL-D, collaborate with partners and engineering teams, drive performance/power optimization, and translate specifications for implementation and delivery of production-quality silicon.
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Job Description:
Automotive SoC Architect is a technical role responsible for architecting and designing high-volume, sophisticated SoC platforms on leading-edge nodes targeting ADAS & IVI-class devices.
This position plays a significant 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:
In this role, the successful candidate is encouraged to:
Required Skills and Experience :
"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :
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 chipping in to current projects. You will also be rewarded with a competitive compensation structure, PTO, benefits, sabbaticals and parental bonding leave!
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!
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Automotive SoC Architect is a technical role responsible for architecting and designing high-volume, sophisticated SoC platforms on leading-edge nodes targeting ADAS & IVI-class devices.
This position plays a significant 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:
In this role, the successful candidate is encouraged to:
- Design and develop Arm's SoC architecture based on Arm product IP and system architecture to meet the requirements of best-in-class Automotive devices.
- Work proactively across Arm's architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the SoCs' needs
- 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.
- 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
Required Skills and Experience :
- Significant experience in architecting scalable automotive SoCs on leading edge nodes
- Experienced knowledge of developing FuSa-compliant architectures supporting mixed-criticality compute up to ASIL-D. Working knowledge of FMEA analysis & fault detection, management, and isolation techniques.
- 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" Skills and Experience :
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and requirements
- Prepared to challenge the status quo constructively at senior level
- Consistent 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 chipping in to current projects. You will also be rewarded with a competitive compensation structure, PTO, benefits, sabbaticals and parental bonding leave!
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 promises
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Skills Required
- Significant experience architecting scalable automotive SoCs on leading-edge process nodes
- Functional safety (FuSa) experience supporting mixed-criticality compute up to ASIL-D, including FMEA and fault detection/management/isolation techniques
- Expertise in heterogeneous compute architectures
- Expertise in power management and clocking for SoCs
- Experience with coherent and non-coherent interconnects, multi-level caching architectures, and memory hierarchies
- Experience with PCIe and CXL
- Experience with DRAM memory technologies
- Experience with 2.5D/3D packaging
- Performance and power modeling and estimation experience
- Experience with functional profiling, debug, security and access control, and virtualization
- Experience with soft real-time accelerators
- Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills; able to present at executive level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years' experience in a senior development or leadership position within the semiconductor industry
- Ability to influence across engineering and business organizations and work across partners to deliver engagements in parallel
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and requirements
- Willingness to challenge the status quo constructively at senior level
- Proven track record of timely, to-specification delivery of multiple sophisticated projects in parallel
Arm Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Broad RSU grants are positioned as a core part of total rewards post‑IPO, and a 2024 ESPP allows up to a 15% discount with lookback to the lower of the start or purchase‑date price. Together these programs expand ownership opportunities across the workforce.
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Retirement Support — Investor filings state a 401(k) match of 100% up to the first 6% of employee contributions, with the same match rate cited for executives and the wider workforce. This signals strong employer support for long‑term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Benefits include a fully paid four‑week sabbatical after four years, enhanced maternity/paternity and parental bonding leave, a quarterly Day of Care, and paid volunteering time. These offerings indicate breadth well beyond standard PTO.
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