Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Software Engineer at Arm, you will join the Chip Methodology & Automation (CMA) team in the Solutions Engineering organization. This team creates scalable methodologies, workflows, and automation. These help engineering teams deploy Arm-based SoCs efficiently and consistently. Your role includes developing scalable Linux-based tools and shared infrastructure. You will focus on Python development, reusable automation, tool integration, performance, and reliability to improve engineering workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintainable Linux tools and command-line applications, preferably using Python.
• Contribute to modular architectures supporting multiple tools, projects, and engineering teams.
• Identify workflow bottlenecks and implement automation that improves execution time, reliability, and efficiency.
• Build reusable infrastructure, APIs, interfaces, and integration patterns for engineering applications.
• Implement process execution, environment management, error handling, logging, and diagnostics.
• Build structured configuration and compatibility contracts using YAML, JSON, or schemas.
• Develop unit, integration, regression, performance, and system tests.
• Profile and optimize CPU, memory, filesystem, network, and batch-processing workloads.
• Support packaging, deployment, versioning, backward compatibility, and release automation.
• Participate in requirements analysis, technical development, code reviews, and validation planning.
• Build user documentation, provide integration mentorship, and develop material for fixing issues.
  
  

Required Skills and Experience:

• Software development experience in Python or a comparable language, with a strong preference for Python.
• Good understanding of Linux operating systems, command-line environments, processes, and filesystems.
• Experience crafting modular and reusable software components.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, debugging, and code reviews.
• Familiarity with shell scripting, process automation, YAML, and JSON.
• Understanding of software performance, reliability, error handling, and logging.
• Ability to independently deliver well-defined features with limited supervision.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
  
  

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with pytest, Python packaging, or extensible CLI frameworks.
• Familiarity with scalable platform architecture, plugins, APIs, or service-based integrations.
• Experience building secure and auditable execution frameworks.
• Familiarity with distributed computing, job schedulers, containers, or shared Linux environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated release workflows.
• Knowledge of concurrency, caching, profiling, or large-scale filesystem operations.
• Exposure to semiconductor, EDA, or engineering automation workflows.
  
  

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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.