Principal Software & Firmware Architect - Innovative Ecosystem Advancement (Apply in minutes)
Job Overview: We are looking for a Principal Software and Firmware Architect who would help
envision and deliver the next generation of improvements to power managementand system architecture on Arm. You will collaborate with specialists across
Arm to evaluate and develop new concepts and technologies, deploying them
internally within Arm, and then assisting Arm partners in adopting them. Your
contribution will advance both Arm power and performance specification and
standards roadmaps, and the wider Arm ecosystem.
**The ideal candidate will be:**- An excellent communicator! Sharing the progress of tasks, and seeking
- Comfortable coping with uncertainty & resolving ambiguity, as you will be
- Able to navigate and make high-level design trade-offs, and document and
partners.
You will join the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm. We are amultifaceted, collaborative, highly motivated and influential team responsible
for building the foundation of future compute platform architectures, from
mobile phones to servers to autonomous vehicles and IoT nodes.
**Responsibilities:- Understand system capability gaps and propose architectural solutions.
systems via prototypes.
- Craft and perform experiments and analysis to answer architectural
- Propose and demonstrate new Operating-System (e.g., Linux) andor firmware
- Document and communicate architectural concepts and results clearly and
hardware or software development engineers, to architecture community peers, and to high level technology and business leadership.
- Plan and collaborate with external partners and other groups in Arm to gain
- Create andor maintain Arm standard specifications.
- Bachelor of Science degree in EEECECECS or related fields.
- Strong programming skills using languages such as C, and experience
- Understanding of power management mechanisms in Operating Systems (like
- Working experience using firmware interfaces such as ACPI or device tree.
- Proven record of driving features from concept to realization working
across organizational boundaries and external partners.
**“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:- Arm CPU and SoC system architectures.
- Knowledge about power and thermal management software, firmware and systems
- Understanding the key use cases, design constraints and workloads in a
- Debuggers and other tools and techniques to analyze how the OS and
- Experience driving standards and specifications.
**In Return: We at the heart of the worlds most sophisticated digital products. Our
technology enables the generation of new markets and transformation ofindustries and society. We craft scalable, energy efficient-processors and
related technologies. Our innovative technology is licensed by Arm Partners
who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip containing our
intellectual property. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking
down barriers to innovation for developers, designers, and engineers, ensuring
a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.
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## **Hybrid Working at Arm**
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environmentthat 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
groupsteams 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 ofmutual 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, orstatus as a protected veteran.