Staff Software Engineer – SoC SW Productisation
Job Overview
Join the Infrastructure Solutions Software team as a Staff Software Engineer in Test, working on Arm Neoverse platforms for cloud and data centre computing. You will drive system-level validation, test automation and quality across pre-silicon and silicon environments to support production readiness.
The role offers a choice between a hands-on technical contribution and a technical team lead path, depending on your experience, skills and career aspirations.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in system-level validation, test methodology and automation.
- Develop test automation and infrastructure, improving tools, frameworks, continuous integration and regression testing.
- Drive system-level validation and defect resolution across pre-silicon and silicon environments.
- Collaborate with software, firmware and hardware teams to resolve issues and support product readiness.
- As a team lead and line manager, build and develop a team, supporting engineers’ technical and career development while remaining technically engaged.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in software testing and system-level validation for SoC, firmware, platform software or embedded systems.
- Ability to guide engineering decisions and influence teams through technical leadership.
- Understanding of test methodologies, automation, continuous integration and regression testing, and experience using test coverage, quality metrics and defect management to improve quality.
- Ability to debug and solve problems and communicate across software, firmware and hardware teams.
Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of server-class SoCs, including reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), power management, PCI Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), memory and virtualisation.
- Familiarity with the Linux kernel, Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A), UEFI EDK II, OpenBMC or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
- Experience with automated system validation, hardware test environments, server farms or continuous integration infrastructure.
In Return
You will work on system-level challenges across pre-silicon and silicon environments, with the opportunity to contribute hands-on or develop engineers as a technical team lead.
Additional Information
Please note that no relocation package is available for this role.
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