Staff Embedded DSP & AI Optimisation Engineer

CamWebDir; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to design, optimize, and demonstrate DSP and AI workloads on Arm-based platforms. You will work closely with hardware architects and software teams to bring up platforms, port operating systems, and optimize compute-intensive workloads.

The role involves developing and showcasing performance improvements using features like MVE, NEON, SVE2, and SME, and contributing to system-level integration across sensors, memory subsystems, and

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and low-level embedded programming.
• Solid understanding of processor architectures, memory hierarchies, caches, DMA, and interrupt handling.
• Familiarity with RTOS, Zephyr, or Linux.
• Practical experience in performance profiling and code optimization.
• Familiarity with DSP algorithms, fixed-point arithmetic, and SIMD/vector processing.
• Experience with embedded development tools, compilers, debuggers, and hardware evaluation boards.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and collaboration skills.
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Platform bring-up: Enable and configure embedded platforms, including bare-metal environments, RTOS, Zephyr, and embedded Linux.
• Performance optimization: Transfer and improve DSP, audio, vision, and AI workloads through Arm architectural features like MVE, NEON, SVE2, and SME.
• Compute libraries: Develop and optimize mathematical and signal-processing kernels, including FFTs, filters, image processing, and ML preprocessing.
• System integration: Integrate sensors, memory subsystems, DMA, accelerators, and software components into complete processing pipelines.
• Benchmarking and profiling: Analyze CPU utilisation, memory bandwidth, cache behaviour, latency, and power consumption using hardware performance counters and profiling tools.
• Technical demonstrations: Develop representative applications showcasing the capabilities of Arm processors and accelerators.
• Collaboration: Work with processor architects, software teams, and silicon partners to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend architectural improvements.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded programming

Processor architectures

RTOS/Zephyr/Linux

Performance profiling

DSP algorithms

Fixed-point arithmetic

SIMD/vector processing

Debugging tools

Communication skills

Job description

Arm is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to design, optimize, and demonstrate DSP and AI workloads on Arm-based platforms. You will work closely with hardware architects and software teams to bring up platforms, port operating systems, and optimize compute-intensive workloads.

The role involves developing and showcasing performance improvements using features like MVE, NEON, SVE2, and SME, and contributing to system-level integration across sensors, memory subsystems, and