Software Developer, Physical & Edge AI Platforms

Arm Holdings

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Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$209,100–$282,900 / yr
Posted
113 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $246k
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This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $142,991–$220,850 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Arm Holdings

Arm Holdings plc is a leading British semiconductor and software design firm, established in 1990 and recognized for developing energy-efficient processor architectures that power nearly all smartphones and a vast range of IoT and computing devices.

Arm Holdings currently has 113 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $208,450–$282,050 across 112 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Developer, Physical & Edge AI Platforms

The Software Developer – Physical & Edge AI Platforms joins the team to build foundational software for the next generation of Physical and Edge AI platforms on Arm. You will develop platform-level services, runtime infrastructure, and developer tooling to enable the deployment and management of AI workloads for vision, robotics, and speech. Key responsibilities include building APIs, SDKs, and abstractions that decouple applications from hardware accelerators while ensuring reliability under edge constraints like limited resources and real-time requirements. You will utilize C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python to work on Linux-based systems involving process isolation, IPC, and service lifecycles. This role solves the technical challenge of running complex AI models independently of cloud services on heterogeneous hardware including CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and DSPs.

What does a Software Developer earn?

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What you'll do

  • Build and implement scalable system services for edge and physical AI workloads.
  • Develop runtime infrastructure for the deployment, lifecycle management, and updates of on-device AI components.
  • Create software abstractions that decouple applications from underlying AI frameworks, models, and hardware accelerators.
  • Build APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling to streamline the integration of AI-powered features.
  • Develop observability and diagnostics capabilities to monitor performance, failures, and system behavior.
  • Optimize system-level performance across CPUs and AI accelerators under real-time edge constraints.
  • Contribute to reference implementations, technical documentation, and example workflows.

What we're looking for

  • Strong experience crafting and building systems software, platform services, or distributed systems in production.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python.
  • Solid understanding of Linux-based systems, process isolation, IPC, and service lifecycles.
  • Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tooling.
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with container technologies and modern packaging/deployment approaches (preferred).
  • Familiarity with edge computing, embedded Linux, or real-time systems (preferred).
  • Exposure to AI/ML inference systems, heterogeneous computing, or robotics (preferred).

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