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Staff Lead Engineer - Edge Developer Tooling

Job ID 2025-14517 Date posted Jul. 27, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Software Engineering Apply

Job Overview:
In the Developer Platforms group at Arm, our mission is to make software development on the Arm architecture simple and intuitive. We are growing our team and are looking for a passionate engineer to help us lead delivery of the next generation of developer tool experiences for Arm.


Development on the edge encompasses a broad set of engineering paradigms and this is a unique opportunity to apply your existing development and leadership skills to create approachable tooling for complex systems.


The ideal candidate for this role will have engineering experience across different technologies and have a passion to build developer tools in the Arm ecosystem in lockstep with brand-new hardware. 


Responsibilities:

  • Form effective relationships with other engineers, product managers and UX specialists to enable collaboration and best understand and empower our users. 
  • Work closely with management and engineering teams to define, plan and commit to feature delivery
  • Strive to continually refine engineering processes and root out inefficiencies
  • Line management of a diverse engineering team and supporting them through mentoring and code reviews.
  • Drive demonstrable quality through unit testing, continuous integration and feedback from our customers


Required Skills and Experience :

  • Proven experience of software engineering with exposure to the full development lifecycle
  • Experience running agile teams, backlog management and engineering process refinement
  • A passion for delivering engaging experiences for new and complex hardware use cases with a focus on user-centred product design and developer workflows
  • Familiarity with modern, effective software development: source control, automated testing, object-oriented or functional paradigms and the Agile methodology.
  • A "get things done" attitude to shipping high-quality, robust software which is maintainable and responsive to evolving requirements.
  • A passion to push forward the state of the art in developer tooling by embracing new technologies and continuous innovation


“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • We rate an eagerness to learn new technologies over existing skills. However, any experience in the following would be of benefit:
  • Embedded development of micro controllers or embedded linux (e.g. ZephyrOS, Yocto)
  • High level language experience (e.g. Python, TypeScript)
  • Experience with machine learning and generative AI frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
  • Experience with UX principles and processes and an eye for design


In Return:

You will lead an established and experienced team working with innovative technologies in an agile environment which requires proactivity, dynamic approaches to problem solving and creative thinking. You will work on greenfield software products which ship with new Arm hardware on day one.


Please provide a covering letter with your application.

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