Overview
The Software group is responsible for developing and enhancing the software ecosystem for Arm’s next-generation server-class SoCs and reference platforms. This includes firmware, boot software, system software, and platform enablement stacks that are tightly coupled with advanced hardware technologies.
The Arm Reference Systems DevOps & QA team is looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Embedded DevOps / Build & Release Engineer with 6+ proven experience leading all aspects of CI/CD infrastructure, enabling repositories for firmware development, and supporting partner or customer release activities.
This role is critical to ensuring reliable, scalable, and automated deployment of firmware stacks across multiple SoC programs. The engineer will work closely alongside firmware, platform, validation, and release groups to maintain build systems, improve developer workflows, manage release pipelines, and support timely delivery of firmware artifacts to internal teams, partners, and customers.
You will work at the intersection of embedded software, DevOps, CI/CD, and release engineering, helping improve software quality, build reliability, and delivery efficiency for next-generation Arm-based platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, optimize, and grow CI/CD pipelines for embedded firmware and software codebases supporting the platform.
- Enable and configure repositories for different firmware components and platform programs.
- Assist in the development and management of distribution processes for firmware stacks like TF-A, UEFI, SCP, bootloaders, Linux, and associated platform software.
- Build, maintain, and improve automated pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI.
- Automate firmware build, image generation, packaging, signing, versioning, and artifact publishing workflows.
- Support partner and customer releases by handling release branches, tags, artifacts, documentation, and delivery packages.
- Collaborate with firmware, infrastructure, verification, and QA teams to debug build failures, integration issues, and release blockers.
- Enable per-patch, nightly, and release validation routines to boost software quality and catch problems early.
- Maintain CI infrastructure, runners, build environments, scripts, and automation frameworks.
- Integrate and maintain static analysis, compliance, and security scanning tools such as Coverity and Black Duck.
- Drive standardization of build and release processes throughout various firmware repositories and SoC programs.
- Improve developer productivity through automation, tooling, documentation, and self-service workflows.
- Track CI health, build failures, test trends, and release readiness through dashboards and reporting.
- Ensure timely support for release achievements, partner drops, customer deliveries, and internal engineering builds.
Required Skills and Experience
- More than 6 years of experience in DevOps, Build & Release Engineering, Embedded Software, or CI/CD infrastructure roles.
- Extensive practical experience in maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated experience working with CI/CD tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
- Strong scripting and automation skills, preferably using Python, shell scripting, or similar languages.
- Experience managing embedded firmware or platform software repositories.
- Solid knowledge of firmware build processes involving elements like TF-A, UEFI, SCP, bootloaders, Linux, or equivalent stacks.
- Solid understanding of Linux development environments and build systems such as Make, CMake, or related tools.
- Experience with repository enablement, branch management, tagging, versioning, and release workflows.
- Solid grasp of SoC architecture, embedded systems, or platform software development.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including firmware, validation, QA, platform, and release teams.
- Strong communication, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
- Capacity to work autonomously and assist with time-sensitive partner or customer release activities.
Nice to Have
- Experience with firmware signing, secure boot, image generation, or trusted firmware release workflows.
- Experience with Docker, containers, or reproducible build environments.
- Experience with static analysis, security scanning, and open-source compliance tools.
- Experience building dashboards for CI, build, release, and test metrics.
- Knowledge of test automation frameworks and validation pipelines.
- Experience supporting external partner, customer, or silicon program releases.
- Familiarity with dependency management across multiple firmware repositories.
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