Staff Software Engineer

Arm; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the productization stream for automotive reference software. You will drive integration across SOC firmware, manage builds for multiple variants, and ensure robust performance on diverse hardware platforms with AI-enabled, software-defined vehicles.

You will collaborate with software leads, architects, and management to deliver high-quality, optimized systems, guiding teams through complex dependencies and ensuring scalable, reliable software

Qualifications

• 12+ years in SOC firmware development and integration across semiconductor lifecycle.
• Strong C and embedded programming skills with test and CI/CD experience.
• Experience with trusted firmware, bootloaders, Linux, and drivers.

Responsibilities

• Define software integration strategy across modules and platforms.
• Lead cross-team collaboration for high-quality product delivery.
• Create and maintain customized builds for multiple variants and customers.
• Bring up software on virtual and hardware platforms and optimize performance.

Skills

C programming

Embedded systems

CI/CD tooling

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Python

Yocto

Linux

Hypervisors

Device drivers

Telemetry & test

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Tools

Yocto build system

Git/GitHub/GitLab

Repository management

Job description

Job Overview

Our automotive software team is looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer for the productization stream. You will be focusing on software integration and system level hardening of our automotive reference software stack for our next generation compute subsystems in the context of software-defined vehicles enabled with artificial intelligence (AI). You will lead technical initiatives across engineering domains and work closely with our software leads, architects as well as program and project management to deliver robust, optimized systems that shows the outstanding capabilities of our platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be creating and implementing a robust software integration strategy, collaborating closely with developer and test teams, tech leads and other partners to ensure high-quality product delivery. Key responsibilities include understanding the product requirements at system level, defining software integration strategy, developing and implementing strategies to resolve cross dependencies across various software modules, creating and maintaining customized builds for multiple platform variants and customers, bring-up of software on different virtual and hardware platforms, setup and maintain build systems, and supporting initiatives to continuously improve performance and quality of our software.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience with combination of SOC firmware development and integration across semiconductor development life cycle.
• Excellent C and embedded programming skills, Integration test spec development, CI/CD and familiar with Git, GitLab/GitHub, Python
• Good working experience of trusted-firmware-a, trusted-firmware-m, bootloaders, Linux, Hypervisors, device drivers and other components of embedded software stack
• Expertise with Yocto build system, repository management
• Leading feature team to achieve excellent result!
• Great interpersonal and communication skills, excellent written and spoken English, and the ability to write coherent documentation, influence, and build consensus

Desirable Skills & Qualities

• Strong debugging skills, capable of navigating complex software stacks and delivering effective solutions
• Exposure to automotive software safety/security qualification is an added advantage!
• Experience in bring up of integrated software stack across hardware and software platforms
• Good understanding of architecture and microarchitecture concepts, memory maps, MMU and SMMUs, interrupt controllers etc.

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.