Staff Software Engineer

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Job Overview

As a developer of power-efficient processor technology, Arm is ideally positioned to solve challenges facing a wide variety of markets, including Automotive, IoT, Mobile, and Servers. Effective solutions require a "system" mindset and your innovative ideas will support Central Technology to develop system architectures and influence industry-leading IP that underpin each solution!

This diverse role will largely focus on providing software enablement for our next generation CPU and accelerator based technologies on target use-cases. Typical activities would include application and system analysis, technology research, hands-on software prototyping to understand how software and hardware behaves, experimental investigations, and performance analysis. Recent projects have included technologies related to AI Video Camera, Video encode/decode, and LLM (Large Language Model) applications.

You will join a dynamic, collaborative and highly motivated Solutions team based in Cambridge (UK).

Responsibilities

• Application bring-up on/porting to Arm silicon and modelling platforms
• Analyzing software stacks both statically (code structure) and dynamically (runtime performance profiling) to characterize the workloads/algorithms and determine a baseline performance from which to start optimization
• Accelerating algorithms with hand-optimized Arm assembly using the latest Arm technologies such as SVE (Scalable Vector Extensions) and SME (Scalable Matrix Extensions)
• Projecting and measuring gains at the application level
• Evaluating workload sensitivity to micro-architecture features and considering relevant trade-offs, especially related to performance
• Providing suggestions about improvements to the (micro-)architecture & application software
• Developing tools to automate workflow
• Line management and taking the lead on some technical areas within the team
  
  

Required Skills and Experience

• Good understanding of computer architecture and embedded systems
• Experience of software development for a commercial organization
• Strong knowledge of C or C++ programming
• Proficiency in problem solving and debugging skills
• Practical, organized and analytical approach to work
• Good oral and written English skills
• Line management and/or mentoring experience
  
  

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience

• Experience with assembly programming
• Knowledge of optimising and profiling software
• Software development and integration on Linux, Android, or similar systems
• Knowledge of scripting languages, including Python
  
  

In Return

We at the heart of the world's most sophisticated digital products. Our technology enables the generation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We craft scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies. Our innovative technology is licensed by Arm Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip containing our intellectual property. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers, and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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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.