Job ID 2024-10827

Date posted Jun. 02, 2026

Location Cambridge, United Kingdom

Category Software Engineering

About the team

Arm has built the world’s most pervasive compute architecture, powering computing wherever it happens – from embedded and automotive systems to cloud and data center infrastructure. As Arm continues to grow its presence in server and infrastructure markets, system software plays a critical role in enabling high-quality, production-ready platforms for customers and partners.

This role sits within Arm’s System Solutions software organization, working on software for Arm Neoverse–based platforms,from early bring-up and validation on pre-silicon platforms through to production-quality firmware on real silicon, while providing technical and people leadership in a focus group responsible for platform bring-up, boot flows, system configuration, and architecture feature enablement.

Job purpose and accountabilities

We are seeking an experiencedStaff Software Engineerwithpeople management capabilitiesto lead the design, development, and optimization of low-level software and firmware components. The ideal candidate will play a key role in system architecture, performance tuning, and silicon bring-up for next-generation platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and validate firmware across Pre-Silicon platforms (virtual platforms, FPGA, and emulators) to bringup in silicon.
• Collaborate with hardware, validation, and system teams to ensure seamless integration
• Optimize system performance includinglatency, bandwidth, and power efficiency
• Debug complex system-level issues acrosshardware-software boundaries
• Line Manage 3-5 Engineers including goal setting and performance evaluation
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across teams in their domain

Skills and experience:

Required

• Solid industry experience building complex system software, combined with demonstrated leadership or mentoring and a strong track record of delivery.
• Background in firmware development on pre-silicon and silicon platforms (preferably on Arm-based systems), demonstrated through ownership, review, and guidance of complex technical designs.
• Sound technical judgement, including assessing trade-offs, managing technical risk, and sustaining long-term software quality.
• System software experience with Infra-scale platforms and one or more of associated features like RAS, Virtualization, Power Management, BMC, Telemetry, Debug, Diagnostics, etc.
• Strong communication skills and a track record of effective collaboration across teams and sites.

Nice to have

• Experience working on server or infrastructure platforms, including customer- or production-facing environments.
• Understanding of system architecture (preferably Arm), OS fundamentals, bootloaders, and device drivers.
• Experience working with open-source software or upstream communities like Linux, edk2, TF-A, TF-M, etc.
• Understanding of software development standard processes, including testing strategies, CI, and release considerations.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.

In return:

You will have the opportunity to lead a critical system software team working on groundbreaking technology, with scope to influence technical direction, delivery outcomes, and team culture within a highly skilled global engineering organization!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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

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.