Architect and design high-volume automotive SoC platforms using Arm IP for ADAS and IVI devices. Lead cross-functional architecture efforts, ensure FuSa-compliant designs up to ASIL-D, coordinate Arm IP delivery into SoCs, drive performance/power optimization, and engage partners/customers on architecture specifications.
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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Different levels are available for this opportunity based on experience.
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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Different levels are available for this opportunity based on experience.
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