IT & Software

Technical Director, Infrastructure SoC Software

ARM

Cambridge · Cambridgeshire · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Technical Director role, you lead a globally distributed software team responsible for complex infrastructure software spanning SoC, firmware, and system validation. You partner with hardware, software, and product leaders to align strategy and drive critical decisions, shaping production-ready solutions for Arm’s cloud and data center platforms. You will guide software design, improve efficiency and quality, and ensure delivery momentum. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence the next generation of Arm infrastructure technology.

Pay / Benefits
  • relocation package with visa sponsorship
  • hybrid working
  • accommodations during recruitment process
  • equal opportunities employer
Responsibilities
  • Provide technical direction across SoC, firmware, and system validation from pre-silicon to production readiness
  • Partner with hardware, software, architecture and product leaders to align on strategy and drive decisions
  • Analyze requirements and architecture specs to guide software design
  • Lead practices for software efficiency, quality, and predictability
Key requirements
  • Extensive experience delivering complex system software and leading large, globally distributed engineering teams in embedded or infrastructure SoC space
  • Strong background in SoC, firmware, platform software and system-level validation across pre-silicon and silicon environments
  • Deep expertise in low-level systems (bootloaders, device drivers, OS fundamentals, Linux preferred) and solid computer architecture knowledge
  • Excellent technical judgment, leadership and communication with ability to influence senior collaborators and drive cross-organization decisions
  • leadership
  • communication
  • influence
  • System-on-Chip (SoC) expertise
  • firmware and platform software
  • system-level validation (pre-silicon to silicon)

Reference: WJ-747_30154961

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