Job ID 2026-17261

Date posted May. 05, 2026

Location Cambridge, United Kingdom

Category Software Engineering

Job Overview:

Arm's Central Engineering Machine Learning Group is seeking highly motivated and creative Software Engineers to join a cross-site and multi-culture software team! This role presents an excellent opportunity to move into ML, the key development for the future of computing. Working on the groundbreaking Arm technology, you will be crafting the software that powers the next generation of mobile apps, portable devices, game development and much more.

You will work on an open-source project that helps developers integrate and deploy machine learning workloads through Vulkan, enabling portable development across a wide range of platforms and devices. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of machine learning, graphics and compute APIs, compilers, runtime libraries, developer tooling, and next-generation GPU/NPU hardware.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer your role will be to design and implement of a Software Development Kit (SDK), ensuring that it meets all the needs from various users. This includes various areas such as ML compiling technologies and high performance ML runtime libraries targeting next generation GPU hardware.

More than anything else, you must have a willingness to learn new techniques and develop new technologies. Given the impact and reach of this field, you'll have opportunities to share this knowledge with other specialists across the company.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Strong software engineering skills with extensive modern C++ experience and solid scripting skills, preferably Python.
• Experience in designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality software.
• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle, code review, CI, testing, and agile development practices.
• Ability to work across different development platforms, such as Linux, Android, emulators, software models.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them to various engineering problems.
• Good written and spoken communication skills in English to be able to collaborate with various teams

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be valuable:

• Open-source software development of large project with complex dependency, including public code reviews, documentation, release notes, issue tracking, and community engagement.
• Vulkan or other low-level graphics and compute APIs, such as OpenCL, CUDA, DirectX, or Metal.
• Machine learning frameworks, inference runtimes, model formats, or model conversion tooling.
• CMake, cross-compilation, packaging, dependency management, or developer tooling.
• Performance analysis, profiling, optimization, or benchmarking.
• Android, embedded Linux, mobile platforms, software models, emulators.

Additional Information

Please note that no relocation package is available for this role. If skilled worker sponsorship is required, Arm will meet costs associated with sponsorship for the employer only. All fees associated with the individual’s application e.g. visa application fee and Immigration Health Surcharge, will be the responsibility of the successful candidate.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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