Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Arm has built the world’s most pervasive compute architecture, and we’ve led many of the technology revolutions that impact the day-to-day lives of people everywhere. The Future of Infrastructure is Built on Arm. Now we are building new software teams to take us to the next level.

Job Overview:

Arm is seeking a skilled, experienced, and highly motivated Software Technical Lead located in Sophia Antipolis, to join our Software Engineering group. As a member of the System Solutions team, you will have the opportunity to enable the evolution of Arm AGI CPU software ecosystem. You will be working with a distributed team spread across Arm’s worldwide engineering centers.

Responsibilities:

Are you are looking for a unique opportunity to build and lead a successful firmware team transforming AI Infrastructure landscape? We would like to hear from you!

• You will provide technical expertise and leadership to the team, including leading and line managing an experienced firmware team.
• You will drive the team to accomplish its goals and continuously improve performance.
• You will analyse industry specs, roadmap requirements, break down tasks, and help implement project plans.
• You will collaborate closely with technical leads, technology managers, and distributed development teams to deliver roadmap commitments.
• You will be actively involved in software design and creation of software stacks for Arm’s reference platforms, and lead development practices for best-in-class software efficiency, quality, and predictability.

Required Skills and Experience:

• You have experience and skills for people management, including recruiting, managing talent, team building, and developing team members.
• You have a strong background in embedded C programming, with proven skills in debugging and optimizing system software components.
• You possess expertise in Linux development (OS fundamentals, device drivers and kernel modules), and a good understanding of computer architecture and microarchitecture concepts, ideally for the Arm architecture.
• You have experience across the full software lifecycle, from concept to delivery and maintenance. You’re familiar with Agile development, CI, and automated testing.
• You have experience collaborating with and contributing to open-source projects such as Linux kernel, TF-A, TF-M, UEFI EDK II, OpenBMC.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Experience in development and validation of production quality firmware in server segment.
• Experience with OpenBMC project.
• Familiarity with technologies such as RAS, hypervisors, CXL, power management, secure boot.
• Experience with Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices