Job ID 2026-17278

Date posted Jun. 03, 2026

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Hardware Engineering

Job Overview:

Are you seeking a new technical lead and design challenge in a growing hardware development team in a world leading company? If you are looking for a role that combines both technical leadership and hardware development in an environment where you can make a meaningful contribution and collaborate with a delivery focused, committed team that builds innovative SoC platforms, we look forward to hearing from you!

We seek an experienced system-level, hardware design lead to bring your knowledge and expertise to make a long term impact to the success of the project and the wider business. The team works at the forefront of embedded design alongside Software, SoC, Characterisation and Verification teams focusing on prototyping Arm's latest IP products. We develop physical hardware platforms, based around Arm's custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.

Responsibilities:

As a Board Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for the architecture and leadership of a board project team. The specification, design, commissioning and delivery of new hardware platforms for development and validation activities for internal teams and external partners to enable Arm to produce the optimal products for our customers. Work alongside the platform architects to define engineering specifications for the boards and provide direction to the design team. You may also work with and lead ODMs and CEMs for product development and delivery.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in EE/CS, related field or equivalent experience
• Experience in requirements capture, developing design specifications and providing technical guidance to a mixed ability board-level hardware team
• Fundamental understanding of compute architectures and functional building blocks. Detailed knowledge of embedded system and board design, involving complex SoC devices
• Experience of EDA tools for schematic entry, PCB layout and signal/power integrity from a board-design perspective (Cadence OrCAD CIS, Allegro PCB design suite)
• Understanding of high-speed digital design (PCIe and LPDDR) and signal integrity, developing routing guidelines for complex PCB stack-ups and topologies
• Recent experience of the full hardware development lifecycle, including NPI for embedded systems, ideally with CEM/ODMs and external design partners
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with system architects, silicon and software teams with the passion to drive individuals to succeed
• Delivery focused, confident in planning, task tracking and status reporting, ability to prioritise and manage risk. A creative and structured approach to problem-solving
• Flexible and adaptable to change, experience in working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to write coherent documentation
• Comfortable at working with individuals of all levels, fields and customers/partners

Desirable Skills and Qualities:

• Experience with mechanical design concepts and thermal management
• Appreciation of programming languages such as: assembly language (ideally Arm assembler), higher-level (e.g. C), object orientated (e.g. C++)

In Return:

You will gain a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance. Opportunity to utilise your engineering skills to develop technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. Work alongside many other engineering teams including software, SoC implementation and verification, collaborating and enabling engineers and designers. Extend your design expertise, producing high quality designs incorporating Arm IP. You will enjoy new technical challenges faced when using advancing technologies!

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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