Staff Firmware Engineer - Memory Subsystem Lead

Job Title

Staff Firmware Engineer - Memory Subsystem Lead

Role Summary

Lead firmware development and validation for the memory subsystem across pre-silicon models and silicon bring-up on Arm Neoverse–based infrastructure platforms. Provide technical leadership, cross-team coordination, and hands-on engineering to ensure memory subsystem correctness, performance, and production readiness.

Manage and mentor a small team while collaborating with hardware, platform firmware, validation, and architecture teams to deliver robust platform firmware.

Experience Level

Senior — requires approximately 10–15 years of professional experience in firmware or low-level system software and demonstrated leadership/mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

Accountable for technical delivery, integration and validation of the memory subsystem and for coaching a small engineering team.

• Lead development, integration and validation of memory subsystem firmware across pre-silicon and silicon bring-up milestones.
• Collaborate with hardware, platform firmware, validation, and system architecture teams to coordinate memory bring-up and platform integration.
• Debug complex, cross-boundary hardware/software failures and provide root-cause analysis and mitigations.
• Optimize memory behavior for correctness, latency, bandwidth, reliability, and power; evaluate trade-offs against platform goals.
• Review designs, validation results and critical code; contribute hands-on to unblock delivery when required.
• Line manage 3–5 engineers: goal setting, coaching, performance reviews and technical development.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering practices, documentation and debug discipline for long-term quality.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, experience and leadership attributes.

• 10–15 years of industry experience in complex firmware or low-level system software with a strong delivery record.
• Practical experience with pre-silicon models and silicon bring-up; ownership or technical leadership of platform firmware development.
• Deep knowledge of memory subsystem enablement: memory initialization, platform configuration, controller/PHY interaction, training flows, error handling, and performance tuning.
• Proven ability to debug system-level issues across hardware/software boundaries and make technical trade-offs under ambiguity.
• Experience collaborating effectively with hardware build, validation, architecture, platform firmware and QA teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience mentoring or leading engineers.
• Line management experience (managing 3–5 engineers) and delivering team outcomes.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience on server or infrastructure platforms and production-facing environments.
• Familiarity with DDR/LPDDR, memory controllers, PHY initialization, ECC, RAS, and memory performance analysis.
• Understanding of system architecture, boot flows, firmware interfaces, device drivers and OS fundamentals.
• Experience with CI, validation planning, release readiness and defect triage in firmware projects.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

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.