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Staff Software Engineer

Job ID 2024-12667 Date posted 20/02/2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Marketing & Communication
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Job Overview

You will be joining our Performance Tools team, who design and develop the tools that games developers and application developers use to profile and debug their work for optimum performance, enabling the next generation of mobile games and other innovative graphics applications.

Are you passionate about mobile gaming, interested in building tools that help developers improve the efficiency of their games, or do you have an interest in the processes used in the development of graphics for applications? Then this role is for you, allowing you an in-depth view of the processes used by developers to create to graphics in applications and a role in shaping the tools those developers are using.

We are looking for a graphics API expert to join our team working on our newest graphics tool.

Working collaboratively as part of the Performance Tools team to extend, develop and maintain our suite of tools or to contribute to the design and development of new profiling tools

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the processes used by the developers using our profiling tools
  • Contribution to the development of new features, including work planning, feature design, and consideration of User Experience / work flow
  • Design and development of new profiling tools and methodologies
  • The creation of automated tests, contributing to our DevOps pipeline to maintain the fast cadence and high quality of our releases
  • High quality engineering through approach reviews, code reviews and following modern agile software development process
  • Mentoring and coaching of junior team members
  • Documentation of designs / implementations

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Strong expertise in Vulkan or other similar graphics APIs
  • A strong understanding and practical experience of modern C++ programming
  • Strong abstract reasoning skills with an ability to focus on key concepts at all levels of detail.
  • You should be motivated, an independent problem solver, technically versatile, willing to be flexible and accept new challenges.
  • The ability to identify risks and propose mitigation strategies
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • The ability to work alone as well as in a team
  • The desire to take ownership and accountability at work
  • Experience with scripting, in a language such as Python, and using the Linux command line.

"Nice to Have" Skills and Experience:

You may have

  • Experience developing games using Unity, Unreal, Godot or similar engines
  • Understanding of different computer graphics techniques and understand the associated tradeoffs
  • Exposure to ML / AI
  • Experience with OpenCL / Cuda style compute solutions
  • Android development experience
  • Experience working cross site

Do you think you could contribute to our team? Even if you don't meet all these requirements we would love to hear from you!

In Return

Our UK offices are amazing places to collaborate. We also have some scope to adapt the job role and title for the right person - if you are interested but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome versatile people into Arm!

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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.

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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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