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Director GPU Hardware Engineering

Job ID 2025-15708 Date posted Sep. 15, 2025 Location Trondheim, Norway Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

This position provides a fantastic opportunity to work as part of the GPU Hardware leadership team; defining, developing and delivering the future GPU Hardware roadmap. The role includes responsibility for providing strong leadership to GPU Hardware Engineering’s multisite teams, encompassing design, verification and implementation skills!

The successful candidate will be a key contributor to shaping the GPU Hardware strategy and execution, ensuring that the team’s efforts are aligned with Arm’s broader vision for GPU technology. The position will require periodic travel to Arm and customer sites.

Responsibilities:

As a key member of the GPU Hardware leadership team, you will lead a diverse, multisite organisation spanning design, verification and implementation! You’ll develop, mentor and scale teams while fostering a culture of high performance, accountability and continuous growth. This includes overseeing hiring, retention, career development and succession planning to ensure the team remains inspired, capable and future-ready.

You will drive delivery across projects and locations, ensuring milestones are achieved and risks are managed effectively. Working closely with other GPU and Arm functions, you’ll translate group-level goals into clear strategies and executable roadmaps that challenge assumptions and unlock new opportunities. With a focus on continuous improvement, you’ll evolve processes to enhance efficiency, scalability and quality, while promoting collaboration across teams. Finally, you will represent GPU Hardware Engineering with internal and external partners, building trusted relationships and maintaining clear, consistent communication at all levels.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Experience in Hardware IP development.
  • Experience in leading, growing and managing engineering teams.
  • Ability to inspire, motivate, empower and develop talent at scale to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Experience building roadmap scenarios to support strategic and technical direction setting.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and building extraordinary teams.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

  • A proven track record of consistently exceeding goals, demonstrating results orientation and driving urgency and excellence.
  • The ability to translate strategic goals into tangible impact and measurable outcomes.
  • A history of leading change initiatives, moving at pace and embedding exponential ways of working.
  • A passion for fostering a culture of innovation by encouraging experimentation, diverse thinking and learning from both success and failure.
  • Demonstrated success in developing extraordinary teams who multiply impact together.

In Return:

You will have the opportunity to work on the latest GPU hardware technologies as part of a world-class team. Arm offers an inclusive and collaborative culture where leadership excellence, innovation and continuous improvement are celebrated. You will have access to exceptional professional development opportunities, exposure to global teams and a chance to shape the future of GPU hardware at scale.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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