Arm

Staff Software Engineer, Physical AI

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Base Salary

$209k - $283k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build reliable and scalable system services for Physical AI workloads.
  • Develop runtime infrastructure for on-device deployment, lifecycle management, and updates of AI-powered components.
  • Create abstractions that decouple applications from AI frameworks, models, and hardware accelerators.
  • Build APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling for integrating AI-powered features.
  • Improve workflows from local development through on-device deployment and updates.
  • Build observability and diagnostic capabilities for performance, failures, and system behavior.
  • Optimize performance across CPUs and AI accelerators under edge, resource, and real-time constraints.
  • Collaborate with architects, product managers, and AI engineers on platform capabilities and developer-facing abstractions.
  • Contribute to reference implementations, documentation, and example workflows.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building systems software, platform services, or distributed systems in production.
  • 3+ years of experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tooling.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python.
  • Understanding of Linux-based systems, process isolation, IPC, service lifecycles, and API build and versioning.
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization.
  • Ability to work across APIs and lower-level system behavior.
  • Preferred experience with container technologies and modern packaging and deployment approaches.
  • Preferred familiarity with edge computing, embedded Linux, or real-time systems.
  • Preferred exposure to AI/ML inference systems and heterogeneous computing across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and DSPs.
  • Preferred background in robotics, vision systems, or Physical AI applications.
  • Open-source systems or developer tooling contributions are preferred.
  • Familiarity with security concepts such as secure boot, isolation, or attestation is preferred.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working with team-determined working patterns and flexibility subject to local legal, regulatory, tax, and other considerations.
  • Annual salary range of $209,100-$282,900.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and employment.
  • Total reward package details are shared during recruitment and selection.
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5,001-10,000 employees

Arm’s foundational technology is defining the future of computing. A future built by the greatest technology ecosystem in the world. A future built on Arm. Arm is everywhere technology matters. Technology matters everywhere. Together, we’ll power every technology revolution moving forward, including cloud computing, automotive and autonomous systems, IoT, the metaverse, and beyond. Changing the world. Again. On Arm.

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