Senior Principal System Architect

Senior Principal System Architect - Principal Consultant | Software Engineering, AI & CV/ML, Semiconductors & Electronics European Tech Recruit is working closely with a multinational semiconductor company based in Cambridge, looking for a talented Senior Principal System Architect to join their team. In this role you will tackle challenging development work to help kickstart projects, run sophisticated proof‑of‑concepts, and be a technical leader from the front, focused specifically on next‑gen smartphone and tablet solutions. Responsibilities: Engage with engineering leadership and product planning teams to develop the technology roadmap. Translate technology requirements into platform architecture, encompassing hardware, software, tools and other components. Work proactively across the architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the needs of smartphones and large‑screen compute SoCs. Evaluate architecture proposals, internal and external IP features and provide influential leadership across hardware, software, and platform groups to align all parties to a common vision of architecture & technology development. Represent the company with high technical credibility in customer meetings, appropriately incorporating feedback. Build high level architecture specifications as required to enable engineering teams to design and verify platforms addressing client market segments including smartphones, large‑screen compute and embedded/home devices. Design experiments and analyses to answer architectural questions, and invent, develop, or drive the development of simulators, models, profilers, and other methods and tools as vital to implement the analyses. Communicate results and technical concepts clearly and credibly across audiences ranging from individual hardware or software development engineers to architecture community peers, and business leadership. Qualifications: Proven track record in smartphone/tablet SoC architecture or related work experience. Deep technical background and credibility. Proven ability to drive progress in an ambiguous environment. Collaborative and influential across organisations. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work across multiple teams. Apply directly on LinkedIn or send your CV to nh@eu-recruit.com. By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data and store and process it on our systems. For more information please see our Privacy Notice (https://eu-recruit.com/about-us/privacy-notice/). Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. #J-18808-Ljbffr