Arm
Director of Product Management, Android/Linux Platform
$212K–$286K
San Jose, California · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
About the job
Leads product strategy and cross-functional execution for platform software, firmware, and reference-platform enablement so customers and ecosystem partners can validate and adopt Arm technologies.
What you'll do
- Define software and firmware enablement strategy, requirements, priorities, and validation plans across Arm platforms.
- Align engineering, architecture, customers, OEMs, silicon partners, and ecosystem teams on readiness, upstream enablement, and release priorities.
- Lead platform bring-up and feature validation across reference platforms and software environments, and build a scalable enablement team model.
What they ask for
- Validated experience in software product leadership, platform software, or ecosystem enablement in a customer-facing environment.
- Strong understanding of system software, firmware, platform bring-up, or OS enablement.
- Experience defining software strategy and execution bridging early technology validation and productization.
- Strong partner management, multi-functional leadership, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with Arm architecture, Arm-based SoCs, or Arm platform software.
- Experience in platform bring-up, Android upstreaming, kernel enablement, performance tooling, telemetry, power measurement, compiler/toolchain integration, or moving prototype code into customer-ready software.
Pay
$211,600-$286,200 per year (base salary; USD)
Tools
Android, Linux, Windows, firmware, kernel, FPGA, simulation, emulation
AI focus
The role enables platforms for future AI compute; it does not describe direct AI development or implementation work.
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