Engineering Director jobs at Arm in United States, Austin

Arm is seeking a proactive and diligent Compliance Manager to lead and scale our compliance and quality assurance function within the Data Center Engineering organization. In this role, you will not only architect the framework that ensures alignment with certifications and regulatory requirements, but also build and lead a high-performing team focused on operational perfection.

You will serve as a strategic partner to lab operations, systems engineering, facilities, and security teams—translating regulatory and quality requirements into practical, scalable standards for our high-performance computing infrastructure. This is a key leadership position with broad influence over risk management, audit readiness, documentation, and process standardization.

• Leadership & Team Development: Build and lead a compliance team, setting priorities, coaching talent, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Operational Compliance Program Ownership: Define and implement operational compliance programs across high-performance computing labs, including standards for equipment use, maintenance practices, labeling, and process governance.
• Global Trade & Export Control Oversight: Establish and retain controls related to international shipments, export classifications, technology transfer compliance, and interactions with global partners. Ensure alignment to ITAR, EAR, and other relevant regimes while maintaining program agility and speed.
• Business Continuity & Risk Mitigation: Develop and maintain business continuity plans for critical lab and infrastructure operations, ensuring resilience and recovery planning is in place for hardware, power, cooling, and related dependencies.
• Internal Policy Alignment: Ensure team activities align with broader Arm-wide compliance requirements, including supplier management, health and safety, environmental guidelines, and ethics-related protocols.
• Documentation & Audits: Oversee process documentation, version control, labeling standards, and compliance runbooks. Prepare for internal reviews and external audits where required.
• multi-functional Engagement: Act as an extension engineering, lab operations, legal, facilities, and leadership to set shared goal and embed compliance into the development and execution lifecycle.
• Supervise changes in applicable laws, export controls, and Arm corporate policy—driving updates to procedures and communicating changes across partners.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement: Create dashboards, reports, and executive updates to supervise compliance posture, identify gaps, and deliver actionable improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience leading compliance or governance programs in an R&D, hardware, technical environment.
• Solid understanding of export compliance frameworks (e.g., EAR, ITAR), trade documentation, and shipping practices for technical equipment.
• Familiarity with business continuity planning, risk assessment methodologies, and interpersonal readiness practices.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to influence across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience leading people, setting priorities, and developing team capability.
• Comfortable with fast paced environment that is rapidly developing and changing.

• Experience in a regulated global enterprise or high-complexity supply chain environment.
• Familiarity with technical documentation control systems and compliance platforms.
• Understanding of lab infrastructure operations, including equipment lifecycle, labeling, inventory tracking, and facility standards.
• Exposure to experimental or R&D lab environments supporting hardware, silicon, or AI infrastructure development

• Be part of a pioneering team influencing the next generation of data center systems.
• Collaborate with top-tier talent to develop industry-leading AI hardware.
• Drive innovation at scale with global impact!
• Access professional growth through complex project involvement and multidisciplinary teamwork.
• Join a company committed to diversity and inclusion, where your work matters and drives global progress!

What you will do

• Build secure firmware and low-level software for Arm v9 and upcoming Arm architectures.
• Develop, test, and debug on virtual platforms, development boards.
• Create and maintain software stacks for Arm reference platforms.
• Break down specs and roadmap goals into clear tasks; help craft and deliver project plans.
• Guide Arm partners with hands-on technical advice and code reviews.
• Upstream patches, review community contributions, and keep our code healthy over time.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar (Master’s or PhD a plus).
• 5 + years of embedded or systems-software development.
• Strong C skills; some assembly and scripting (Python, Perl, or similar).
• Experience with GNU or LLVM toolchains and cross-compilation.
• Deep knowledge of one or more of the following: bootloaders, device drivers, kernel internals, power management, or secure firmware.
• Hands-on experience with multicore systems and cache-coherency concepts.
• Clear written and spoken English and a collaborative, inclusive communication style.
• Self-starter who can work both independently and across distributed teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with software security concepts and threat modeling.
• Track record of profiling, instrumentation, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing automated tests and continuous-integration pipelines.
• Comfort with Agile workflows and open-source contribution processes (Git, Gerrit, GitHub, or similar).

How we support you

• Growth & recognition– Annual learning budget and visible upstream impact.
• Flexibility– Hybrid work options plus generous paid time off.
• Well-being– Comprehensive health coverage and family-friendly policies.
• Inclusive culture– We celebrate different perspectives and help one another succeed.

Apply today—let’s build what’s next, together.

Job Overview:

This role can be performed onsite or remotely within the US.

• Be responsible for the coordination of internal and external customer compute system requirements with external data center design, engineering, manufacturing and construction.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to engineering staff developing facility white space build out plans.
• Travel to data center and equipment manufacturing locations to assess and review compliance with designs, fitness for purpose and general construction administration oversight.
• Participate in multi-functional meetings related to data center capacity, buildout and future availability.
• Participate in customer and prospective customer meetings to understand hardware compatibility requirements with facility engineering and capacity.
• Ability to create typical details, plan and elevation views of electrical and mechanical designs in white spaces and perform site adaptation of typical designs to site specific requirements.
• Coordinate external MEP firms’ work and third party equipment engineering engagements
• Perform mentoring and staff development.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• 6 - 10 years of experience as a project engineer at a MEP firm, AE firm or equivalent construction company role.
• Professional Engineers license (not required for stamping/sealing purposes)
• Experience performing load calculations for electrical and mechanical systems
• Knowledge and understanding of single line drawings, equipment schedules and shop drawing reviews
• Comfortable performing construction site observations
• Experience with various control systems, PLC/SCADA systems and communication protocols
• Experience with heat pumps, heat wheels, heat exchangers, chillers, dry coolers, evaporative cooling systems and other large scale thermal systems and equipment
• Solid understanding of UPS, generator and other facility level electrical distribution equipment
• Ability to travel internationally
• Prior people management experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable meeting with and engaging directly with customers during requirements gathering and solution development

• LEED Accredited Professional
• AutoCAD / Revit experience
• Knowledge of HPC systems and large scale enterprise IT infrastructure typically contained in data centers.
• Prior data center design and construction experience
• Knowledge of IBC/IMC/IECC, NFPA, ASHRAE, NEC, TIA, LEED BC +D and other related codes and standards

Our Central Engineering Software group delivers support for Arm technologies across a wide variety of software projects and create example software solutions to demonstrate real world applications. You will join other software solution architects addressing the growing demand for software to support Arm systems.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding new Arm architecture features, their implementation and what that means for existing software components and tools. Devising how to promote their benefits to software ecosystems and resolve issues that arise in their adoption.
• Analysis and deep understanding of software solutions currently deployed in products, in particular the major open-source software projects such as Linux.
• Delivering software improvements back to the relevant open-source projects as a reference for Arm customers to create their own systems from.
• Working with Arm’s OS, OEM and Silicon Partners to drive standards that enable the optimisation, differentiation, and fast evolution benefits of Arm’s Partner model
• Building new software paradigms onto Arm reference hardware designs
• Profiling the performance of the system and innovating ways to improve
• Leading validation of the functionality, security and safety
• You can expect to be working closely with some of the greatest household names in our industry to help develop, optimize, and deliver the software needed to support Arm's pioneering IP, as well as helping Arm grow its role in new market segments.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of Arm based computer Architecture and experience of software profiling, instrumentation, and optimization
• Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other STEM degrees with at least 20 years of experience.
• Strong understanding of complex multi-component embedded systems with demonstrable low-level device driver development or integration experience.
• Commanding knowledge of C or C++ development with proficiency with optimizing applications, workloads, and compilers
• Understanding of how to rigorously test software and design software for test
• Experience of the software lifecycle: has taken sophisticated software from concept to production and maintenance

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Android, ChromeOS or Windows software and systems
• Experience with Linux, Linux distributions, Cloud/Edge applications and networking software
• Knowledge of Machine Learning software stacks, algorithms and tooling
• Knowledge of multimedia system designs involving GPUs, compositing display processors and image signal processing.
• Familiarity with System-on-a-Chip architectures