Principal Software Engineer

arm limited; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Software Team Leader in Bristol. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in release engineering and quality assurance for production firmware, ensuring robust processes in a dynamic, global environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Release management, Quality Assurance and Test automation.
• Engineering management experience leading a diverse and distributed team.
• Embedded software development and testing experience using open source software.

Responsibilities

• Providing tested releases of production quality downstream firmware to partners.
• Management of entire release process, including branch management and all aspects of software version control.
• Development and implementation of test strategies including acceptance, reliability, and robustness testing.

Skills

Release management

Quality Assurance

Test automation

Job description

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Arm is best known for the smartphone CPU and GPU technology connecting billions of people all over the world. Now we are building new software teams to take us to the next level!

Technology built on Arm is all around us, from industrial and automotive applications, to the IoT, to the desktop and data center. ‘Wherever Computing Happens’, we need to enable Arm by providing software solutions that interface higher-level software stacks with the hardware itself.

Job Overview:

Arm is seeking skilled, experienced and highly motivated Software Team Leader, located in Bristol, to join our Software Engineering group. As a member of the Software Engineering Group, you will have the opportunity to enable the evolution of Computing Infrastructure using Neoverse CSS. You will be working with a distributed team spread across Arm’s worldwide engineering centers. Your primary responsibilities will include release engineering, version control and quality assurance of production quality firmware releases.

Responsibilities:

• Providing tested releases of production quality downstream firmware to partners.
• Development of release plans in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Documentation of release notes and effective communication to internal and external stakeholders
• Management of entire release process, including branch management and all aspects of software version control.
• Quality assurance of release candidates including verification and validation.
• Development and implementation of test strategies including acceptance, reliability, and robustness testing.
• Management of CI pipelines for downstream firmware release processes.
• Line management, coaching and mentoring to a team of highly skilled software engineers.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in Release management, Quality Assurance and Test automation.
• Engineering management experience leading a diverse and distributed team.
• Embedded software development and testing experience using open source software.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Familiarity with developing platform software for server platforms.
• Familiarity with open-source projects such as Linux Kernel, TF-A, EDK II and OpenBMC.

In Return:

Arm is a global, diverse organisation of dedicated, innovative, and highly capable people. We believe great ideas come from a vibrant and inclusive workplace where everyone can grow, succeed, and share their outstanding contributions. You will join a multi-cultural team with varied skills and experience. You will have access to a huge variety of technologies and systems to learn and will be supported every step of the way!