Senior Director of Flows and Methodologies

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Join Arm and Shape the Future of Hardware Flows and Methodologies

 

Arm’s Productivity Engineering team is looking for an experienced, collaborative, and people-focused Senior Director of Flows and Methodologies. In this high-impact leadership role, you will guide a world-class team of front-end and back-end engineers to deliver tools, flows, and standards that support innovation and scale across Arm’s IP and SoC teams.

 

If you're excited about solving complex challenges, building high-performing teams, and driving progress in a fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you.

 

About the Team

The Hardware Enablement team is central to accelerating hardware development at Arm. We create and maintain automation tools, flows, and infrastructure for IP and SoC design, verification, and performance modelling. Our goal is to make designs more testable, scalable, and standards-compliant—enabling teams to deliver faster and with greater confidence.

 

Responsibilities:

Lead the creation and improvement of scalable hardware design methodologies and automation environments.

Define and implement flows and methodologies for RTL design, verification, performance modelling, physical implementation, and post-silicon validation.

Partner with leading EDA vendors to explore and test new tools and technologies.

Collaborate across engineering teams to understand evolving needs and deliver tailored, high-impact solutions.

Coach and mentor engineers; help your team grow and succeed in both front-end and back-end domains.

Provide technical leadership to ensure on-time, high-quality project enablements

Champion quality, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.

Shape long-term strategies for tooling and hardware enablement aligned with Arm’s broader product vision.

Required Skills and Experience :

An MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Demonstrated experience in SoC development, hardware design, or EDA tooling.

A strong background in RTL development, logic synthesis, floor-planning, place & route, DfT, timing signoff, and chip integration.

Hands-on experience with EDA tools such as Synopsys, Cadence, or Siemens.

Deep understanding of performance modelling, power analysis, and scaling challenges at advanced nodes.

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence technical direction across an organization.

Clear, confident communication skills and the ability to work with diverse teams.

A passion for growing and supporting inclusive, collaborative engineering cultures.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

Strategic mindset with a record of driving innovation in hardware development.

Experience leading global teams and scaling engineering processes across large organizations.

Business-savvy approach to aligning engineering outcomes with company goals.

A growth mindset and enthusiasm for creating a culture of excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviours 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

Join us and make your mark on the future of computing. Your leadership will directly impact the performance, scalability, and quality of Arm’s next generation of technology.

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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