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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Palo Alto, California, United States; Detroit, Michigan, United States Today $179k – $269k
ARM Linux Jobs
ARM is the dominant processor architecture for mobile, embedded, and increasingly cloud workloads. AWS Graviton, Ampere Altra, and Apple Silicon are driving ARM adoption into the data centre, while ARM remains the foundation of virtually all embedded and IoT Linux deployments. ARM Linux expertise spans from Raspberry Pi and embedded IoT to hyperscale cloud computing.
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Burlingame, California, United States Today Not disclosed
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Santa Clara, California, United States Today $249k – $325k
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Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States Yesterday Not disclosed
San Francisco, California, United States Yesterday Not disclosed
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Palo Alto, California, United States; Detroit, Michigan, United States Yesterday $150k – $225k
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Palo Alto, California, United States Yesterday Not disclosed
El Segundo, California, United States Yesterday $184k – $186k
Austin, Texas, United States 2d ago Not disclosed
Remote, Worldwide 2d ago Not disclosed
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San Mateo, California, United States 5d ago $100k – $300k
Chantilly, Virginia, United States 5d ago Not disclosed
Hawthorne, California, United States 6d ago $125k – $175k
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Burlington, Massachusetts, United States 6d ago $180k – $200k
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 6d ago $219k – $290k
Helsinki, Finland May 27 Not disclosed
San Francisco, California, United States May 27 $187k – $260k
Irvine, California, United States May 26 Not disclosed
San Bruno, California, United States May 26 $195k – $225k
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France (Remote) May 26 Not disclosed
Frequently Asked Questions
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AWS Graviton processors (ARM Cortex-A based) offer 20-40% better price-performance than equivalent x86 instances for many workloads. Graviton3 and Graviton4 power EC2 instances including C7g, M7g, and R7g. Ampere Altra is used by Oracle Cloud and Azure Cobalt. Apple's M-series chips run macOS but many developers use ARM VMs. Engineers who can ensure applications run correctly on ARM architecture are increasingly valued.
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ARM Linux development challenges include cross-compilation (building on x86 for ARM targets), ensuring software dependencies are available for ARM (most open-source software supports both, but some proprietary software is x86-only), understanding ARM-specific performance characteristics, and for embedded work: writing or porting device drivers for ARM SoC peripherals.
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ARM is the dominant architecture for embedded Linux: Raspberry Pi (ARM Cortex-A), BeagleBone, NVIDIA Jetson (ARM Cortex-A + GPU), NXP i.MX series, TI Sitara, Qualcomm Snapdragon (mobile/IoT), and countless industrial SoCs from Rockchip, Allwinner, Marvell, and others all run ARM Linux. Automotive, medical devices, and industrial automation are heavily ARM-based.
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ARM Linux roles require understanding of ARM architecture (instruction sets, ABI, memory model), cross-compilation toolchains (arm-linux-gnueabihf, aarch64-linux-gnu), bootloader setup (U-Boot for embedded, UEFI for server), device tree (DTS) for hardware description, kernel driver development, and performance profiling using ARM-specific tools.