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Director GPU Hardware Engineering

Job ID 2025-15708 Date posted Sep. 15, 2025 Location Trondheim, Norway Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job purpose and responsibilities

This position provides a fantastic opportunity to work as part of the GPU HW leadership team; defining, developing and delivering the future GPU HW roadmap. The role includes responsibility for providing strong leadership to GPU HW Engineering’s multisite teams; encompassing design, verification and implementation skills.

  • Team leadership and talent management: effective leadership of the team, including: hiring, retention, scalability, development, succession, mentoring and coaching, while acting as a leader who sets the standard and inspires extraordinary teams.
  • Delivery: Drive execution at pace across multiple teams and locations, ensuring milestones are met while proactively managing risks and dependencies.
  • Strategy: Translate group-level goals into clear team strategies and roadmaps. Build scenarios that challenge assumptions and explore exciting opportunities.
  • Methodology: Foster continuous improvement, evolving engineering processes and methodologies to increase efficiency, scalability, and quality.
  • Collaboration: Develop team culture by breaking down silos and driving shared success within the hardware org and other GPU and Arm functions.
  • Partner engagement: Represent engineering with internal and external partners, building trusted relationships and ensuring communication quality is consistently high.

The position will require periodic travel to Arm and customer sites.

Essential skills / experience

  • Experience in HW IP development
  • Experience in leading, growing and managing engineering teams.
  • Ability to inspire, motivate, empower and develop talent at scale to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Experience building roadmap scenarios to support strategic/technical direction setting.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and building extraordinary teams.

Key leadership capabilities

The candidate will be able to demonstrate a 10x mindset of achieving impactful improvement, with examples of how they have initiated and driven innovations in each of the key leadership areas:

  • Results Orientation – Consistently exceed goals; energised by challenge; drive urgency and excellence.
  • Strategic Orientation – Translate strategy into tangible impact.
  • Change Leadership – Lead change initiatives; move at pace; embed exponential ways of working.
  • Culture of Innovation – Encourage experimentation and diverse thinking; value learning from both success and failure.
  • Developing Talent – Develop extraordinary teams who multiply impact together.

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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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