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Senior Software Engineer

Job ID 2024-13282 Date posted May. 18, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom; Sophia Antipolis, France Category Software Engineering Apply

Job Overview:
We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to join our growing multi-cultural team. We deliver flows and tools automating engineering tasks to numerous groups across Arm. We provide solutions for seamlessly computing vital data for them on-premise and in the ‘cloud’. Your contributions will save thousands of hours of engineering efforts, helping efficiently engineers to design and verify Arm IPs!

Responsibilities:

The role covers development, deployment and maintenance of workflows. You will:

  • Capture requirements for new features with our partners.
  • Elaborate and write specifications, discuss development strategies with the team.
  • Develop, test and deploy software with Agile methodologies.
  • Provide second line support to our partners using the flow, reproduce and characterise potential bugs, help making the documentation more accurate.
  • Collaborate with internal teams providing the services our solution relies on.
  • Collaborate with external companies that provide the EDA tools we automate.


Requirements:
You are at ease with object-oriented programming and common design patterns. You are willing to develop ergonomic solutions that abstracts technical concepts that are not crucial to the end users. You can keep the balance between efficiency, and readability in your code. You can anticipate usage of compute and network resources of your code and optimise where needed.

Key Attributes:

  • Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or in Electrical Engineering with specialisation in software development.
  • Strong experience in object-oriented software development with a high-level programming language such as Python, Java or C++.
  • Highly skilled in software debugging and reverse engineering across distributed systems and hybrid software (solving dependencies issues, race conditions, performance issues...)
  • Good experience with Linux/Unix working environment (shell) and distributions (RedHat/CentOS, Debian.) Good shell scripting skills (Bash, Tcsh.)
  • Knowledge of the complete software development cycle (SCM, Inline documentation, Testing, CI/CD.)
  • Willing to learn new development languages, tools, frameworks and techniques.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

  • Experience in hardware functional verification (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, systemC. Using Synopsys, Cadence or Siemens tools).
  • Knowledge of more programming languages like C, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Tcl.
  • Experience with Docker (images creation, testing and distribution) and cloud-computing providers (AWS Batch, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
  • Experience in scalable distributed systems design (micro-services, distributed databases).
  • Experience in REST APIs or web-based services design (Django, Flask, FastAPI). Let's ensure we follow this template across all Job Descriptions to maintain consistency.

In Return:
At Arm, you’ll join an encouraging, complementary team where your work directly enables extraordinary engineering efficiency. You’ll gain exposure to ground breaking technologies, collaborate with leading industry partners, and chip in to automation solutions that impact billions of devices.

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Accommodations at Arm

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 at Arm

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.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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Working in software engineering at Arm is about shaping a future of technology for which we don't yet have words. Our engineers lead innovation in physical IP, AI and machine learning, cloud architecture, automotive tech, and every aspect of computing that matters.

Spanning software's full spectrum, from compilers to AI-powered IoT and beyond, your code can enable virtually anything to be produced on silicon. Whether you're developing award-winning VR gaming or life-enhancing medical equipment, you can improve the lives of millions by being your brilliant self at Arm.

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