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 through silicon bring-up for Arm Neoverse-based infrastructure platforms. Provide technical direction and people leadership for a small focus team responsible for memory enablement, platform bring-up, configuration, performance, and firmware quality.

Experience Level

Senior (Staff) level: senior individual contributor with line management responsibility. The posting does not specify explicit years of experience but requires substantial industry experience in low-level firmware and platform bring-up.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include hands-on delivery, cross-team integration, and people management in the memory subsystem domain.

• Lead development, integration and validation of the memory subsystem across pre-silicon platforms and silicon bring-up environments.
• Collaborate with hardware, validation, platform firmware and system architecture teams to ensure coherent memory subsystem bring-up and integration.
• Debug complex system-level issues across hardware/software boundaries and triage ambiguous failures.
• Optimize memory behavior for correctness, performance, latency, bandwidth, reliability, and power efficiency; make trade-offs based on platform goals.
• Review designs, implementation plans and validation results; contribute hands-on to unblock delivery when required.
• Line-manage 3–5 engineers: goal setting, coaching, feedback, performance evaluation and technical development.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering practices, documentation, and debug discipline across teams.

Requirements

Must-have:

• Proven industry experience building complex firmware or low-level system software, with demonstrated leadership or mentoring and a strong delivery record.
• Experience with firmware development on pre-silicon and silicon platforms; preferably on Arm-based systems.
• Deep knowledge of memory subsystem enablement: memory initialization, platform configuration, controller/PHY interaction, training flows, error handling, performance tuning, and bring-up debug.
• Strong technical judgment: assessing trade-offs, managing technical risk and debugging system-level failures.
• Experience working at the hardware/software interface and collaborating with hardware build, validation, architecture, platform firmware and QA teams.
• Strong communication skills and history of effective cross-team collaboration.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience on server or infrastructure platforms and production-facing environments.
• Familiarity with system architecture, boot flows, firmware interfaces, OS fundamentals, device drivers and platform configuration.
• Experience with DDR/LPDDR, memory controllers, PHY initialization, ECC/RAS, memory performance analysis or board/silicon bring-up.
• Knowledge of testing strategies, CI, validation planning, release readiness and defect triage.
• 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.