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SoC Security Architecture Lead

Job ID 2024-12752 Date posted 11/03/2025 Location San Diego, California; Austin, Texas; Chandler, Arizona Category Architecture
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Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled SOC (System-on-Chip) Security Architect Lead to join our diverse team. If you are a self-motivated SoC engineer with expertise in SoC security solutions and requirements and looking to make a difference in an innovative and inclusive team, you have found the right place!

Responsibilities:

As the lead, you will be accountable for defining and developing SoC security architecture solutions for SoCs for multiple product market segments. This includes solutions for the SoC Root of Trust, secure boot, authentication and encryption. You will be architecting and designing access control solutions for the SoC, ensuring secure privilege management, isolation and enforcement of security policies across hardware and software components. You will perform threat modeling, defining software security requirements and refining security design guidelines to ensure robust system protection

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Extensive security experience – 10+ years in applied cryptography, PKI management, secure manufacturing
  • Security analysis & cryptographic expertise – Proficient in cryptographic algorithms, protocols, hardware/software threat analysis, risk assessment, and certification processes.
  • Secure system architecture – Experience in ARM-based security product architecture, secure boot, update/recovery mechanisms, and countermeasures against attacks (SPA, DPA, fault injection, DRM, etc.).
  • Platform security expertise – Senior-level knowledge of Android, Windows, or IoT-based security attacks, including application, framework, kernel, and hardware interactions.
  • Leadership & strategic innovation – Strong experience in technology roadmap planning, technology innovations, and leading multi-national, cross-geo security teams.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape outstanding!

  • Partner and customer focus
  • Teamwork and communication
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Team and personal development
  • Impact and influence
  • Deliver on your promises

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Salary Range:

$273,020-$369,380 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

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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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