SoC Architect - San Jose, California, United States
$323,000 - $437,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Arm is seeking an SoC Architect to architect and design high-volume SoC platforms across mobile, automotive, datacenter and networking, and IoT market segments.
What you'll do
- Design and develop SoC architecture based on Arm product IP and system architecture to meet compute requirements across multiple market segments. - Work proactively across architecture and core technology teams to ensure an architecture platform and technology feature roadmap supporting SoC needs. - Collaborate with core, technology, and software teams to optimize end-to-end platform solutions. - Identify key use cases and workloads showcasing Arm IP and platforms. - Coordinate on-time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs with engineering teams and integrate learnings from SoC development into future IP. - Lead partner and customer-specific architecture discussions, maturing specifications for design and implementation teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within the semiconductor industry. - Experience architecting scalable SoCs across multiple market segments. - Expertise in multiple technical domains including 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, 2.5D/3D packaging, performance / power modeling & estimation, soft real-time accelerators, and DRAM memory technologies. - Presentation and communication skills with the ability to present at an executive level. - Ability to influence across engineering and business organizations internal and external to Arm across execution, strategy, and change.
Nice to have
- Track record of timely, to-specification delivery of multiple complex projects in parallel.
Skills: SoC architecture, heterogeneous compute, power management, coherent interconnect, 2.5D/3D packaging
This role has been open 107 days — well above the 77-day median for SoC/Chip Architecture roles.
SoC/Chip Architecture · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
475
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Median days open
77 d
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Median salary
$238k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (475 roles · 66 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 27 | 475 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 104 | 3283 · 116 employers |
| Median days open | 119 d | 77 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $238k |
Skills observed across this category: SoC architecture, heterogeneous compute, power management, coherent interconnect, 2.5D/3D packaging
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 76 open roles · median 87 d
- NVIDIA · 55 open roles · median 70 d
- Apple · 38 open roles · median 13 d
- AMD · 34 open roles · median 63 d
- Arm Holdings (this employer) · 27 open roles · median 118 d
- Micron Technology · 22 open roles · median 110 d
How we counted: 475 open SoC/Chip Architecture (SOC Architecture) roles from 66 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.