Embedded Software Engineer - Firmware

The Role

Job Overview:

As a member of the Automotive Software Solution team you will have the opportunity to build upon your existing background, knowledge and expertise and contribute to Open Source and commercial Arm ecosystem enabling projects, EDK II, Linux Kernel, Trusted Firmware, SCP firmware. You will work with ecosystem partners to enable reference implementations and optimizations to key software system components. This contribution helps drive the development of world-class system software, for ARM hardware and software platforms catering to the automotive segment. This system software will serve as reference designs for futuristic ARM based automotive central compute server technology. We seek individuals with exposure and knowledge of every level of the system software stack ranging from BareMetal firmware, bootloaders, Kernel and Distros.

Passionate about innovative technologies? We want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Identify, architect, and drive innovative and scalable firmware solutions across the Arm automotive ecosystem spanning multiple teams and organizations.
• Foster ecosystem partnerships that will lead to commercialization of system and platform software. This will require leveraging partner relationships including non-recurring engineering projects with documented statements of work (SOW).
• Work with Arm marketing teams to create outbound ML collaterals to showcase Arm technology.
• Work with Arm engineering resources to deliver optimizations for use-cases and applications.
• Work closely with other Arm lines of business to leverage use-cases, sample applications, enablement for Automotive.
• Ensure data privacy, security, and ethical considerations in all data initiatives.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Experience in open-source or commercial boot firmware.
• Experience in Linux kernel development, command over concepts such as, bootloaders, device drivers.
• Experience in developing software stack written preferably in C.
• Expertise in debugging and optimizing sophisticated software systems.
• GitHub and/or GitLab

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Experience working in the open-source community. We value understanding of open-source project development cycles and contribution processes.
• Familiarity with ARM-A or ARM-M architectures.
• Familiar with real-time/deterministic software engineering concepts.
• Familiar with automotive safety critical (ISO26262) software development practices.
• Good understanding on ARM-V8, ARM-V9 architectures, SMMU or IO-MMUs.
• Familiarity with industry standards such as ACPI and UEFI.
• Familiarity with open-source test tools.

In Return:

Our offices are amazing places to collaborate. We also have some scope to adapt the job role and title for the right person - if you are interested but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome versatile people into Arm!

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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