Technical Director, Infrastructure SoC Software

Arm Limited
Cambridge, UK
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£168,300.0 - £227,700.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Booting (BIOS) Linux Device Drivers Firmware Kernel-Based Virtual Machine Linux Kernel PCI Express Remote Access Service Server Administration Software Engineering System on a Chip System Software
+2 more
System Testing Extensible Firmware Interface

Job description

You will:

  • Provide technical direction and expertise to the team and ensure strong technical progress across SoC, firmware and system validation from pre-silicon through silicon bring-up and production readiness.
  • Partner with senior leaders across hardware, software, architecture and product teams to align with technology and delivery strategy and drive key decisions at the organisation level.
  • Actively analyse product requirements, architecture specs and industry standards to drive software design. Lead development practices for best-in-class software efficiency, quality, and predictability

Requirements

  • Extensive experience delivering complex system software and technical leadership of large, globally distributed engineering organizations within embedded or infrastructure SoC space.
  • Strong technical background in System-on-Chip (SoC), firmware, platform software and system-level validation across pre-silicon and silicon environments.
  • Deep expertise low-level systems, including bootloaders, device drivers, OS fundamentals (preferably Linux), and a good understanding of computer architecture.
  • Excellent technical judgement, leadership and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence senior collaborators and drive decisions across engineering organizations., * Knowledge of server-class SoCs, including RAS, power management, PCI Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), memory and virtualization.
  • Familiarity with the Linux kernel, Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A), UEFI EDK II, OpenBMC or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
  • An ideal candidate would have acted in technical lead capacity for teams of 100+ engineers within SoC space.

Benefits & conditions

Please note that a relocation package (including visa sponsorship support) is available for this role, for candidates who require it.

Salary Range:

Cambridge: £168,300 - £227,700

About the company

Arm is redefining what is possible in cloud and data center computing. Our Neoverse platforms are helping power the next generation of infrastructure - combining advanced silicon with the system software required to turn ambitious technology into production-ready solutions.

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