Staff Software Engineer – DSP & AI Optimisation

As an embedded software engineer at Arm, you will bring up and optimize Arm-based platforms, focusing on DSP and AI workloads. You’ll collaborate with hardware architects and software teams to showcase performance gains and system integration. This role blends low-level coding with architecture-aware optimization on Cortex-M/A, bringing up platforms and demonstrating real-world capabilities. You will work on cutting-edge solutions that push the performance and efficiency of Arm processors.

• professional development support
• inclusive and collaborative environment
• career and personal life benefits

• Platform bring-up on embedded environments (bare-metal, RTOS, Zephyr, Linux)
• Optimize DSP, audio, vision, and AI workloads using Arm features (MVE, NEON, SVE2, SME)
• Develop/optimize kernels for DSP and ML preprocessing
• Integrate sensors, memory subsystems, DMA, accelerators into processing pipelines
• Benchmark and profile CPU, memory, caches, latency, and power
• Create technical demos showing Arm processor/accelerator capabilities
• Collaborate with processor architects, software teams, and silicon partners to identify bottlenecks

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and low-level embedded programming
• Solid understanding of processor architectures, memory hierarchies, caches, DMA, and interrupts
• Familiarity with RTOS, Zephyr, or Linux
• Experience in performance profiling and code optimization
• Familiarity with DSP algorithms, fixed-point arithmetic, and SIMD/vector processing
• Experience with embedded development tools, compilers, debuggers, and hardware evaluation boards
• Strong problem-solving and collaborative abilities
• Strong communication skills

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• communication
• Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-A architectures
• MVE (Helium), NEON, SVE2, or assembly-level optimization
• CMSIS-DSP, CMSIS-NN, or equivalent compute libraries