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Senior Principal Display Architect

Job ID 2024-13234 Date posted 08/01/2025 Location Manchester, United Kingdom Category Architecture
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Job Overview:

In Arm's Central Technology group we are building trail-blazing future technology which will keep Arm-based products redefining the state-of-the-art. We are looking for a hardworking Senior Principal Display Architect to join us as part of the CT-Systems Multimedia and Applied Computer Vision Team. This team is responsible for multimedia and vision oriented algorithm design, technology research, as well as next-gen Arm Multimedia Subsystem Architecture for mobile, large screen compute and other market segments. Are you passionate about shaping the future of multimedia and vision compute at Arm? Do you want to see the architectures you have invented being used by millions of people? We may be looking just for you!

Responsibilities:

  • You will be part of Multimedia System Architecture team, giving you the opportunity to develop and make a relevant contribution into Arm Compute Subsystems
  • The role will give you also outstanding opportunity to interact with world class specialists, architects and researchers, both inside and outside Arm
  • You will propose and lead evolution of display processing algorithms and pipelines, by working closely with the algorithm and hardware architecture team
  • As Senior Principal Display Architect, with algorithms focus, you are asked for deep understanding and proven experience working with commercial and advanced display processing pipelines
  • You will contribute to Arm Multimedia Subsystem architecture definition by leading algorithm design of next-generation scaling, colour management, HDR processing and display adaptation parts of the display processor
  • Also, you will have opportunity to represent Arm in various display expert groups

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience in algorithm design, and image quality evaluation of display processing algorithms (scaling, colour management, tone mapping, SDR/HDR composition, HDR video processing, display adaptation) in the context of IP, or SoC architecture
  • Strong analytical thinking approach and problem solving skills
  • Experience in debugging and resolving image quality artefacts by proposing algorithm evolution
  • Hands-on approach and ability to work with various models and software development environments, as well as ability to prototype and evaluate new algorithms by yourself
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, be able to collaborate with multiple teams under ambitious schedules, with a focus on delivery of high-quality results

"Nice to Have" Skills and Experience:

  • Experience in leveraging AI/ML methods in the domain of image and display processing is a strong plus
  • Experience working with HW video codecs and video processing, as well as camera processing
  • Understanding of PPA constraints of hardware realisations of complex multimedia pipelines
  • Experience in best HW-SW partitioning of advanced multimedia use cases mapped into Multimedia Subsystem hardware, and/or computational pipelines running on the CPU, GPU, NPU
  • Good understanding of various display technologies - OLED, microLED, AR/VR displays
  • Knowledge of Android and Windows media/graphics software stacks is also a plus

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