Senior Software Engineer - System QA

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - System QA

Role Summary

Join Central Engineering - Software to validate complex Linux server and SoC platforms. Develop automated tests and log-analysis tools, investigate system-level issues across hardware, firmware and software, and collaborate with partner engineering teams to improve platform bring-up, performance and long-duration stability.

Experience Level

Senior-level role. The posting does not specify years of experience but the title indicates a senior position.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include developing tests, debugging system-level failures, and automating validation workflows.

• Develop and maintain functional, performance, stress and long-duration stability tests for Linux server and SoC platforms.
• Create test automation, log-analysis tools and regression coverage using C/C++ , Python and shell scripting.
• Validate and debug interactions across firmware, Linux kernel and device drivers, system management, networking, storage and hardware bring-up.
• Investigate failures found during system-level workloads and long-duration testing; gather evidence, identify likely root causes and communicate findings to partner teams.
• Exercise platform reliability, availability and serviceability features, telemetry, power and thermal behaviour, and reset and boot flows.
• Contribute to validation of memory, high-speed I/O, PCIe, NVMe, Ethernet, RDMA and accelerator-related workloads.

Requirements

Core must-have skills and experience.

• Proven programming in C or C++ and use of Python and shell scripting for test automation and log analysis.
• Experience validating and debugging Linux-based server or SoC platforms across firmware, kernel, device drivers, system management and hardware bring-up.
• Experience designing and running system-level functional, performance, stress or long-duration stability tests with effective failure detection and root-cause analysis.
• Understanding of system architecture across areas such as CPU and memory, cache coherency, DMA, NUMA, IOMMU/SMMU, PCIe, networking, storage, and power/thermal management.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with BMC-based server management, secure boot, firmware authentication, boot-stage sequencing, watchdogs, reset flows, or inter-processor mailbox mechanisms.
• RAS validation experience across memory, interconnect, PCIe or accelerator subsystems and use of telemetry such as performance counters and sensors.
• PCIe or NVMe validation, including block-device testing, storage performance testing or long-duration storage stress testing.
• Knowledge of high-speed Ethernet, RDMA, RoCEv2, MPI/collective communication stacks or scale-up/scale-out architectures.
• Familiarity with AI/ML or accelerator validation (PyTorch workloads, benchmarking, numerical-result comparison, workload automation).

Education Requirements

No specific degree, field of study or certification is stated. The posting explicitly welcomes equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

Company: Arm

Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom

ARM is a global leader in semiconductor and software design, driving innovation in computing technology. The company specializes in designing processors and systems that provide the essential building blocks for electronic devices. ARM's architecture is widely used in smartphones, servers, and IoT devices, and its collaborative culture fosters bold thinking, diversity, and high-impact benefits for its talented workforce.