Senior Software Engineer - Linux Kernel

Arm is best known for the smartphone CPU and GPU technology connecting billions of people all over the world. Now we are building new software teams to take us to the next level.

Technology built on Arm is all around us, from industrial and automotive applications, to the IoT, to the desktop and data centre. ‘Wherever Computing Happens’, we need to enable Arm by providing software solutions that interface higher-level software stacks with the hardware itself.

Job Overview:

Our Open-Source Software group is enabling new Arm architecture in projects such as kernel, firmware, system control and driver development, for a variety of target markets. Software on Arm must be fast, efficient, and secure, and support the very latest Arm architectural features and standards. We're looking for software engineers with experience of writing low-level C code, standards-based firmware, tooling, and operating system design who enjoy working as part of the wider open-source community.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Being a member of the core arm64 Linux Kernel team responsible for maintaining the upstream Linux port and user space tools
• Review code on public mailing list and upstream code to various Linux subsystems including perf
• Actively work on improving performance and security of upstream Linux Kernel on modern arm64 hardware
• Support our kernel maintainers by helping reduce technical debt and review burden of various subsystems
• Do investigations of new architecture features and how they can be used by Linux
• Upstream support for new architecture features

• Proficient C programmer
• Desire and ability to work as part of a team and the Linux community
• Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals
• Credible experience of developing sophisticated low-level software

• Armv8-A Architecture
• Arm64 assembly language
• Proficient in Linux Memory Management and Virtualisation
• Credible experience of working in the Linux upstream

Our Cambridge 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!