Director GPU Hardware Engineering

Director GPU Hardware Engineering

Arm

Trondheim, Norway

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.