Principal Software Engineer, AI Platforms

Arm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm in Bangalore is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape technical direction, build production software, and establish engineering practices for AI platforms. You will work with senior leaders across Arm to drive significant platform capabilities and oversee implementation.

Responsibilities include defining strategy, designing distributed services, advancing agentic AI workflows in the SDLC, and mentoring engineers while maintaining strong ownership and code quality across teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building distributed software, cloud platforms, or production infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Go, C++, Rust, or Python and concurrency design.
• Experience building and operating software on Kubernetes and Linux.
• Hands-on expertise with agentic AI tools and SDLC workflows.
• Record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction with engineering leadership. Assess platform needs and turn decisions into operable software.
• Design and implement distributed platform services; write critical code and prototype ideas.
• Shape the engineering culture with ownership, design/code reviews, and verification.
• Build and use agentic AI workflows across the SDLC, linking agents to tools and tests.
• Stay current with software engineering, AI tools, and cloud systems; test approaches through experiments.
• Resolve complex design/production problems around concurrency, data consistency, and recovery.
• Help recruit staff and senior engineers; mentor and develop engineers' judgment and ownership.
• Partner with Arm teams in the US and UK on architecture and shared interfaces.

Skills

Go

C++

Rust

Python

Kubernetes

Linux

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer for Arm's AI Platforms team in Bangalore. You will help shape technical direction, build production software, and establish the engineering practices of a growing team. Working with the Director of Engineering and technical leaders across Arm, you will take responsibility for significant platform capabilities and remain closely involved in their implementation.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction with engineering leadership. Assess platform needs, explore design options, and turn decisions into software the team can deliver and operate.
• Design and implement distributed platform services. Write critical code, review implementations, and rapid prototyping to test uncertain assumptions before committing to a design.
• Shape the engineering culture through daily practice. Help the team deliver frequent changes with clear ownership, useful design and code reviews, and verification appropriate to the software being built.
• Build and use agentic AI workflows across the SDLC. Give agents useful project context, connect them to development tools, and establish feedback through tests and code review. Measure their effect on delivery speed and software quality.
• Keep current with developments in software engineering, AI development tools, and cloud systems. Evaluate promising approaches through hands-on experiments and adopt them when the results justify the change.
• Resolve difficult design and production problems involving concurrency, data consistency, performance, and failure recovery. Use what you learn to improve the architecture and the team's engineering practices.
• Help recruit staff and senior engineers, and develop their judgment through shared technical work. Support engineers in taking ownership of complete capabilities and working through unfamiliar problems.
• Partner with Arm teams in the US and UK on architecture and shared interfaces. Make technical decisions understandable and establish clear ownership across teams.

Required skills and experience

• 12+ years building distributed software, cloud platforms, or production infrastructure, or equivalent experience demonstrated through the scope and impact of your work.
• Strong programming skills in Go, C++, Rust, Python, or a comparable language. Experience designing service interfaces, working with concurrency and persistent data, and debugging complex failures.
• Experience building and operating software on Kubernetes and Linux, with an understanding of workload lifecycle, networking, resource management, and failure recovery.
• Hands-on expertise with agentic AI tools and harnesses for the SDLC. Experience configuring and extending workflows, assessing generated code, and verifying changes through automated checks and engineering review.
• A record of technical leadership grounded in your own engineering work, including mentoring experienced engineers, explaining design choices, and improving how a team develops software.

Preferred skills and experience

• Experience with AI inference infrastructure or model serving, including how workload and hardware choices affect latency, throughput, and resource use. Knowledge of inference performance and resource-efficiency considerations.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or Dynamo or experience qualifying accelerators and tuning distributed workloads.
• Kubernetes controllers or operators, deployment systems, or software that manages releases across different compute environments.
• Developer productivity tools, build and test infrastructure for large scale distributed systems.
• Distributed tracing, observability, diagnostics, or data processing systems used to understand production behavior.

In Return

We provide an opportunity to learn about the latest Arm architecture features, working closely with a highly skilled engineering team on ground-breaking technology!

Our 10x Mindset

At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Discover how the 10x mindset shapes life at Arm: https://careers.arm.com/10x-mindset

Use of AI in Your Application

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Recruitment Adjustments and Accommodations

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Hybrid Working

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

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.