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This remarkable opportunity offers you the chance to collaborate with pioneering technologies alongside a world-class team, creating outstanding solutions that will impact the future of AI.\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop and refine reusable tools and automated workflows aimed at building, analyzing, optimizing, validating, and deploying Physical AI workloads on Arm platforms.\nDevelop performance-analysis capabilities that detect bottlenecks across AI models, middleware, operating systems, and heterogeneous compute resources.\nCollaborate with internal teams, open-source communities, and partners to identify common developer challenges and deliver scalable tooling solutions.\nBuild reference integrations, documentation, and examples that simplify tool adoption.\nA successful candidate will have strong software engineering skills, practical experience developing developer-facing tools, and a passion for simplifying complex system development and optimization workflows.\nRequired Skills and Experience:\nStrong C/C++ and Python programming skills, with proven experience building developer-facing tools, automation, or performance-analysis solutions.\nSolid knowledge of Linux systems, software performance engineering, profiling, debugging, and optimization.\nExperience crafting command-line interfaces, APIs, plugins, or integrations for developer workflows.\nIn-depth understanding of Arm architecture, heterogeneous computing, and AI/ML or Physical AI software workloads.\nAbility to convert complex technical problems into user-friendly, reusable, and maintainable software tools.\nEffective written and verbal communication skills in English and Chinese.\nDesired Skills and Experience:\nExperience with profiling or observability technologies such as Linux perf, eBPF, PMU profiling, tracing frameworks, OpenTelemetry or equivalent experience.\nExperience building AI Agent tools, Agent Skills, MCP servers, or LLM-assisted developer workflows.\nFamiliarity with AI/ML frameworks, ROS 2, robotics, autonomous systems, or real-time workloads.\nPrior work on IVI, ADAS or advanced robotics (humanoid, quadruped, AMR).\nExperience contributing to open-source tools or building agent-enabled developer workflows.\nIn Return:\nYou will receive training and support to excel in this role, as part of a welcoming group who is enthusiastic about technologies. 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