Senior Principal System Architect

Company: European Tech Recruit
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Location: Cambridge
Job Description:

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.

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Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.

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Posted: April 11th, 2026