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Director of Software Architecture


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  • arm limited
  • Cambridge
  • 3 months ago

Job Description

Would you like to join a team working across the software technology components used by hundreds of millions of users across multiple platforms and market segments globally? As a Software Architect in the Software Organisation, you will work with our key software ecosystems to define software solutions to enable Arm technology and develop strategies to have those solutions adopted and enabled for users.

Our Central Engineering Software group delivers support for Arm technologies across a wide variety of software projects and creates example software solutions to demonstrate real world applications. You will join other software solution architects addressing the growing demand for software to support Arm systems.


The position will be based at the Arm headquarters in Cambridge.


Job Overview:

As a member of a large software engineering team you will help evolve our software strategy across all computing segments, including embedded, IoT, mobile, automotive, home, networking, large screen compute and data centre. You will drive adoption of new features and trends in core processing, accelerators, and system hardware, Focussing on improved security, reliability, and performance.


Responsibilities:

- Understanding new Arm architecture features, their implementation and what that means for existing software components and tools. Devising how to promote their benefits to software ecosystems and resolve issues that arise in their adoption.
- Analysis and deep understanding of software solutions currently deployed in products, in particular the major open-source software projects such as Linux.
- Delivering software improvements back to the relevant open-source projects as a reference for Arm customers to create their own systems from.
- Working with Arm’s OS, OEM and Silicon Partners to drive standards that enable the optimisation, differentiation, and fast evolution benefits of Arm’s Partner model
- Building new software paradigms onto Arm reference hardware designs
- Profiling the performance of the system and innovating ways to improve
- Leading validation of the functionality, security and safety
- You can expect to be working closely with some of the greatest household names in our industry to help develop, optimize, and deliver the software needed to support Arm's pioneering IP, as well as helping Arm grow its role in new market segments.


Required Skills and Experience:

- Knowledge of Arm based computer Architecture and experience of software profiling, instrumentation, and optimization
- Strong understanding of complex multi-component embedded systems with demonstrable low-level device driver development or integration experience
- Authoritative knowledge of C or C++ development with proficiency with optimizing applications, workloads, and compilers
- Understanding of how to rigorously test software and design software for test
- Experience of the software lifecycle: has taken complex software from concept to production and maintenance

Education & Qualifications
Good university degree (or equivalent), ideally in a numerate subject, although other graduates would be considered if they have meaningful experience.


“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

- Experience with Android, ChromeOS or Windows software and systems
- Experience with Linux, Linux distributions, Cloud/Edge applications and networking software
- Knowledge of Machine Learning software stacks, algorithms and tooling
- Knowledge of multimedia system designs involving GPUs, compositing display processors and image signal processing
- Familiarity with System-on-a-Chip architectures

In Return:

Our UK offices are outstanding places to collaborate. If you are interested but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome versatile people into Arm!

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