Staff Lead Engineer - Edge Developer Tooling

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Cambridge is looking for a passionate engineer to lead developer tooling experiences for innovative hardware. The role involves collaborating with teams, mentoring engineers, and enhancing development processes. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in software engineering and agile methodologies, with a focus on user-centric design. This position offers a hybrid working model to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of software engineering with exposure to the full development lifecycle.
• Experience running agile teams and backlog management.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Form effective relationships with engineers, product managers, and UX specialists.
• Define, plan and commit to feature delivery with management and engineering teams.
• Mentor and manage a diverse engineering team through reviews.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Agile team management

User-centered product design

Continuous integration

High-quality software delivery

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Embedded systems

Job description

Job Overview:
In the Developer Platforms group at Arm, our mission is to make software development on the Arm architecture simple and intuitive. We are growing our team and are looking for a passionate engineer to help us lead delivery of the next generation of developer tool experiences for Arm.

Development on the edge encompasses a broad set of engineering paradigms and this is a unique opportunity to apply your existing development and leadership skills to create approachable tooling for complex systems.

The ideal candidate for this role will have engineering experience across different technologies and have a passion to build developer tools in the Arm ecosystem in lockstep with brand-new hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Form effective relationships with other engineers, product managers and UX specialists to enable collaboration and best understand and empower our users.
• Work closely with management and engineering teams to define, plan and commit to feature delivery
• Strive to continually refine engineering processes and root out inefficiencies
• Line management of a diverse engineering team and supporting them through mentoring and code reviews.
• Drive demonstrable quality through unit testing, continuous integration and feedback from our customers

Required Skills and Experience :

• Proven experience of software engineering with exposure to the full development lifecycle
• Experience running agile teams, backlog management and engineering process refinement
• A passion for delivering engaging experiences for new and complex hardware use cases with a focus on user-centred product design and developer workflows
• Familiarity with modern, effective software development: source control, automated testing, object-oriented or functional paradigms and the Agile methodology.
• A 'get things done' attitude to shipping high-quality, robust software which is maintainable and responsive to evolving requirements.
• A passion to push forward the state of the art in developer tooling by embracing new technologies and continuous innovation

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• We rate an eagerness to learn new technologies over existing skills. However, any experience in the following would be of benefit:
• Embedded development of micro controllers or embedded linux (e.g. ZephyrOS, Yocto)
• High level language experience (e.g. Python, TypeScript)
• Experience with machine learning and generative AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
• Experience with UX principles and processes and an eye for design

In Return:

You will lead an established and experienced team working with innovative technologies in an agile environment which requires proactivity, dynamic approaches to problem solving and creative thinking. You will work on greenfield software products which ship with new Arm hardware on day one.

Please provide a covering letter with your application.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

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.