Senior Firmware Validation Engineer

Arm has built the world’s most pervasive compute architecture, and we’ve led many of the technology revolutions that impact the day-to-day lives of people everywhere. The Future of Infrastructure is Built on Arm. Now we are building new software teams to take us to the next level.

Technology built on Arm is all around us, from industrial and automotive applications, to the IoT, to the desktop and data center. ‘Wherever Computing Happens’, we need to enable Arm by providing software solutions that interface higher-level software stacks with the hardware itself.

Job overview:

Arm is starting up some ground-breaking projects with a new software team being built and expanded in Bristol. These new projects will deliver production quality firmware and software for Arm’s customers in the datacenter and hyperscaler market segments. The team will deliver complete firmware and software stacks to multiple customers of Arm and will be required to develop, test, deliver and support this software across multiple global customers. Come and join us and be one of the first team members to support Arm on this incredibly exciting journey and growth of technology in this market segment.

We are looking for skilled, experienced, and highly motivated Firmware QA engineers.

Responsibilities:

Your responsibility will include developing test cases and test infrastructure for validating firmware to both Arm internal and customer specified test specifications across various test categories - Compliance, Stress, Accelerated life, Strife, Reliability, Performance, Security, and robustness. You will play a key role in developing and using appropriate tooling options for different types of testing and contribute to development of CI pipelines.

Required skills and experience:

• Hands-on experience in test development using C.
• Excellent scripting skills – Python, Bash
• Verification and Validation of embedded software release candidates and releases.
• Experience in Quality Assurance and Test automation of product quality system software, preferably for server ecosystem.

'Nice to Have' skills and experience:

• Experience with Security testing and tools - Fuzzing and penetration testing, SCA & SAST tools, root cause analysis.
• System validation experience of platforms utilizing UEFI and ACPI for technologies such as RAS, Virtualization, Power Management, PCI-E and CXL.
• Familiarity with Arm SystemReady SR Compliance Program.
• Both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation expertise.

In return:

Arm Neoverse is the foundation for the next era of digital infrastructure. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to develop and contribute to the success of Arm Neoverse CSS based solutions.

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