Staff Software Firmware Validation Engineer

Key Skills: Architecture, CSS, EDA, Embedded, Firmware, Go, Linux, Python, REST, Security, Testing

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers at your site, providing technical direction, coaching and career development while remaining hands-on in solving complex engineering challenges.
• Drive system validation and productisation for Infrastructure System Solutions, establishing effective validation plans, quality criteria and approaches to product readiness.
• Advance scalable test infrastructure, CI, regression capabilities and quality metrics to improve coverage, efficiency and confidence throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate across Arm locations and engineering teams to manage dependencies, resolve complex system-level issues and drive effective execution across pre-silicon and silicon environments.

Skills Required:

• Strong experience in complex system software, with a technical background in SoC, firmware, platform software or system-level validation across pre-silicon and/or silicon environments.
• Proven experience leading and developing software engineers, combining line management with strong hands-on technical leadership.
• Strong knowledge of software quality, validation methodologies, automated testing, CI and product readiness for complex systems.
• Excellent technical judgement, problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams and geographical locations.

Nice To Have

• Knowledge of server-class SoCs, including RAS, power management, PCI Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), memory and virtualization.
• 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.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering