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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, AI Inference Cloud - **Company:** ARM - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Salary:** $262,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), AI Infrastructure, Rust (Programming Language), Pytorch, Large Language Models, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, SGLang, Machine Learning Operations, TensorRT, VLLM, Model Inference - **Published:** October 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60238446-principal-software-engineer-ai-inference-cloud ## About the Role * 12+ years of experience, or equivalent proven impact, building distributed systems, cloud platforms, or production infrastructure. * Deep production experience with Kubernetes, including controllers, operators, scheduling, resource management, networking, and workload lifecycle management. * Strong software and production engineering skills, including hands-on programming in Go, C++, Rust, Python, or a similar language, and experience with reliable services, APIs, concurrency, observability, deployment safety, capacity planning, and incident response. * A track record of leading complex technical initiatives while remaining hands-on, including architecture, implementation, debugging, mentoring, and influencing technical direction across teams. * Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and communicate clearly with engineers from different technical backgrounds. Preferred Skills and Experience: * Experience with AI infrastructure, model serving, or accelerator-backed workloads. * Familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, SGLang, or TensorRT-LLM, or experience qualifying accelerators and tuning distributed workloads. * Knowledge of inference performance and resource-efficiency considerations. ## Description As a Principal Engineer on Arm's AI Inference Cloud team, you will shape the technical direction and develop highly available, scalable services for running AI inference workloads. You will guide architecture and actively contribute to development across Kubernetes orchestration, workload management, service delivery, and observability. Partnering with AI compute, Inference Runtime, and product teams to enhance the performance and usability of Arm's AI platform., * Define and build the architecture for cloud-based AI inference services. * Develop Kubernetes controllers and platform capabilities supporting workload deployment, scheduling, recovery, scaling, upgrades, and lifecycle management. * Establish production practices for health validation, progressive rollout, rollback, observability, and service objectives. Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and resource efficiency. * Lead production readiness reviews and resolve complex issues across services, Kubernetes, networking, and compute infrastructure. Turn incidents and operational bottlenecks into durable platform improvements. * Lead design and build reviews, mentor engineers, and drive technical alignment across teams. Necessary Skills and Experience, At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process. Hybrid Working 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. ## About Arm Arm is the industry’s highest-performing and most power-efficient compute platform with unmatched scale that touches 100 percent of the connected global population. To meet the insatiable demand for compute, Arm is delivering advanced solutions that allow the world’s leading technology companies to unleash the unprecedented experiences and capabilities of AI. Together with the world’s largest computing ecosystem and 22 million software developers, we are building the future of AI on Arm. 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