Director of Software Architecture

Salary: £45,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need knowledge of Arm-based computer architecture and the range of SoCs and devices created using Arm hardware IP.
• We need experience in software profiling, instrumentation, and optimization for real-world applications and workloads such as AI stacks, runtime compilers, and multimedia processing.
• We need a strong understanding of complex multi-component computing systems, with demonstrable low-level OS/device driver development or integration experience.
• We need authoritative knowledge of C or C++ development, with proficiency in optimizing applications, workloads, and compilers.
• We need an understanding of how to rigorously test software and design software for testability.
• We need experience across the software lifecycle, including taking complex software from concept to production and maintenance.
• Nice to have: experience with Android, ChromeOS, or Windows software and systems.
• Nice to have: experience with Linux, Linux distributions, cloud/edge applications, and networking software.
• Nice to have: knowledge of artificial intelligence software stacks, algorithms, and tooling.
• Nice to have: knowledge of multimedia system designs involving GPUs, compositing display processors, and image signal processing.
• Nice to have: familiarity with system-on-a-chip architectures.

Responsibilities:

• We will define software solutions that enable Arm technology and develop strategies to help those solutions be adopted and enabled by users.
• We will help evolve our software strategy across all computing segments, including data centre, automotive, mobile, robotics, networking, home, laptops, TVs, embedded, and IoT.
• We will drive adoption of new features and trends in core processing, accelerators, and system hardware, with a focus on improved security, reliability, and performance.
• We will understand new Arm architecture and IP features, how they are implemented, and what they mean for existing software components and tools.
• We will devise ways to promote their benefits to software ecosystems and resolve issues that arise during adoption.
• We will analyse and deeply understand software solutions currently deployed in products, particularly major open-source projects such as Linux.
• We will deliver software improvements back to the relevant open-source projects as a reference for our customers to build their own systems.
• We will work with our OS, OEM, and silicon partners to drive standards that enable optimisation, differentiation, and rapid evolution within our partner model.
• We will build new software paradigms on our Arm reference hardware designs.
• We will profile system performance and innovate ways to improve it.
• We will lead validation of functionality, security, and safety.

Technologies:

• AI
• ARM
• Android
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Hardware
• IoT
• Support
• Linux
• Mobile
• Robotics
• Security
• Windows
• Architect

More:

We are Arm, and our Central Engineering Software group supports Arm technologies across a wide variety of software projects and creates example software solutions to demonstrate real-world applications. You will join a team of software solution architects addressing growing demand for software to support Arm systems. This role is based in our Cambridge, Budapest, or Bangalore offices. Our software engineering team works across multiple global market segments, and we collaborate closely with major industry names to develop, optimise, and deliver software that supports Arms pioneering IP. We offer hybrid working designed to balance high performance with personal wellbeing, and our UK offices provide strong environments for collaboration. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to mutual respect and an inclusive workplace. Please note that no relocation package is available for this role.

last updated 34 week of 2026