Director of Software Architecture

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Responsibilities

• ▹Understand new Arm architecture and IP features, their implementation and what that means for existing software components and tools; devise how to promote their benefits to software ecosystems and resolve issues that arise in their adoption
• ▹Analyze and deeply understand software solutions currently deployed in products, in particular major open-source software projects such as Linux
• ▹Deliver software improvements back to the relevant open-source projects as a reference for Arm customers to create their own systems from
• ▹Work with Arm's OS, OEM and silicon partners to drive standards that enable the optimization, differentiation and fast evolution benefits of Arm's partner model
• ▹Build new software paradigms onto Arm reference hardware designs
• ▹Profile the performance of the system and innovate ways to improve it
• ▹Lead validation of the functionality, security and safety
• ▹Work closely with some of the greatest household names in the industry to develop, optimize and deliver the software needed to support Arm's pioneering IP

Requirements

• ▹Knowledge of Arm-based computer architecture and the range of SoCs and devices created using Arm hardware IP
• ▹Experience of software profiling, instrumentation and optimization for real-world applications and workloads such as AI stacks, run-time compilers and multimedia processing
• ▹Strong understanding of complex multi-component computing systems with demonstrable low-level OS or device driver development or integration experience
• ▹Authoritative knowledge of C or C++ development, with proficiency in optimizing applications, workloads and compilers
• ▹Understanding of how to rigorously test software and design software for test
• ▹Experience of the software lifecycle: has taken complex software from concept to production and maintenance

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Android, ChromeOS or Windows software and systems
• ▹Experience with Linux, Linux distributions, cloud/edge applications and networking software
• ▹Knowledge of artificial intelligence software stacks, algorithms and tooling
• ▹Knowledge of multimedia system designs involving GPUs, compositing display processors and image signal processing

About the company

Arm technology is used by hundreds of millions of users across multiple platforms and market segments globally. The Central Engineering Software group supports Arm technologies across a wide variety of software projects and creates example software solutions to demonstrate real-world applications.