Staff OS Application Engineer

Arm Holdings

Confirmed live today High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$198,100–$268,000 / yr
Posted
60 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $190k
This role $233k
$128k $283k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$214,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $233k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Arm Holdings

At a glance

TL;DR · Staff OS Application Engineer

The Staff OS Application Engineer serves as a technical lead within a customer-facing role focused on platform firmware, bring-up, and debug across silicon, firmware, and operating system layers. You will act as the primary technical interface for customers, performing hands-on debugging for multi-socket and interconnect configuration problems while supporting go-to-market reference platforms and custom designs. Key responsibilities include performing root cause analysis on Linux kernel and drivers, debugging high-speed interfaces like PCIe and DDR, and delivering technical enablement through workshops and documentation. The role requires expertise in OS enablement in firmware using ACPI and Devicetree, along with proficiency in Linux bring-up diagnostics. You will solve complex integration issues by collaborating with internal engineering teams to ensure seamless hardware and software functionality for sophisticated SoC-based platforms.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the primary technical interface for customers throughout their entire product lifecycle.
  • Act as the domain authority on Linux kernel and drivers for platform firmware.
  • Perform hands-on debugging across firmware, silicon, and system-level issues including multi-socket configurations.
  • Debug hardware integration issues involving DDR, PCIe, and other high-speed interfaces.
  • Lead customer issue triage, root cause analysis, and resolution in collaboration with internal engineering teams.
  • Deliver technical enablement through workshops, training sessions, and technical documentation.
  • Feed key findings from customer engagements back into internal engineering and product development.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in silicon, firmware, or server platform development and bring-up.
  • Strong hands-on experience in system bring-up and debug for sophisticated SoC-based platforms.
  • Expertise in OS enablement in firmware, including ACPI and Devicetree.
  • Experience with Linux bring-up and debugging, including boot logs, kernel parameters, and early boot diagnostics.
  • Good understanding of server platform architecture, including CPU, memory, interconnect, and I/O subsystems.
  • Familiarity with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe and DDR from a software perspective.
  • Strong customer-facing social skills and experience driving multi-functional collaboration in a global engineering environment.

More like this

Similar roles

Staff OS Application Engineer

Arm Holdings

Austin, TX 60 days ago $198,100–$268,000
Linux Kernel Firmware SoC PCIe DDR ACPI Devicetree Python Bash OpenBMC BMC Root Cause Analysis System Bring-up Multi-socket Systems Coherency Fabrics
8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Staff Application Security Engineer

Brex

Remote 69 days ago $240,000–$300,000
Application Security AI Security AWS Kubernetes Python Go Kotlin gRPC GraphQL Threat Modeling Microservices LLM Gateways Offensive Security Container Security Distributed Systems
8+ yrs exp Remote

Software Engineer, OS and System Services

Apple Inc

Seattle, WA 76 days ago $142,300–$263,300
C C++ Swift Objective-C Firmware Kernel Drivers Distributed Systems Networking Protocols Configuration Management OTA APIs GPUs TPUs ASICs
5+ yrs exp

Staff App Ops Engineer

Intuit

New York, NY 89 days ago
AWS Kubernetes Docker ArgoCD Go Java Python Ruby CI/CD Prometheus Splunk Wavefront AppDynamics Distributed Tracing Chaos Engineering FMEA Disaster Recovery SSDLC AIOps
8+ yrs exp

Staff Software Engineer IOS

PayPal

San Jose, CA +1 132 days ago
Swift GraphQL REST APIs Mobile Development MVC MVVM Object-Oriented Programming Algorithms Design Patterns
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

GEICO

Bethesda, MD +4 174 days ago $100,000–$230,000
Python C# Go Java C++ SQL NoSQL Docker Kubernetes Azure AWS GCP Microservices REST APIs PowerShell Active Directory SAML OAuth
10+ yrs exp Hybrid