Director, AI Platform Services

Job Overview:

We are building a central AI Platform to support the safe, scalable, and efficient use of AI across Arm's engineering teams.

This Director-level leadership role has responsibility for the team building out this platform, owning strategy, organization build out, and delivery of production grade AI services at scale.

You will initially lead in three key areas:

1. Building and operating our AI control plane:

Define, build, and operate the core platform that enables safe and scalable AI usage across the company. Scope includes:

• Centrally run MCP server infrastructure
• Model access and routing
• Policy implementation & runtime controls
• Enabling safe and observable agentic workflows

2. Engineering experience and enablement:

Ensure AI tools - including the AI control plane - are easy and friction free to use and integrate, including:

• Developer AI portal and service catalogue
• Documentation, training and onboarding experiences
• Establish 'Golden paths' for common AI use cases

3. AI safety:

Ensure AI at Arm is secure, compliant, and aligned with enterprise risk frameworks, including:

• Secure execution environments and workload isolation
• Alignment with security, legal, and compliance requirements
• Implementation of governance policies with minimal developer friction

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high performing team of platform engineers and AI specialists
• Define and implement the AI platform strategy and roadmap
• Partner with engineering leadership to prioritise platform capabilities
• Operate production grade services with high reliability and clear SLAs
• Own vendor relationships and platform budget

Required Skills and Experience:

• Hands on knowledge of AI technologies (for example MCP servers, skills, model orchestration, retrieval augmented generation, vector databases, agentic enablement).
• Experience building and leading platform, infrastructure or developer tooling teams.
• Experience delivering and operating mature and evolving production services.
• Track record of leading through ambiguous and rapidly evolving technology landscapes.
• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, security, and business functions.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• Experience building internal developer platforms or AI platforms
• Experience with AI governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
• Familiarity with sandboxing, isolation, and secure runtime environments

In Return:

You'll take ownership of a flagship AI initiative, shaping the platform that powers Arm's global engineering teams. You'll define the vision, build the team, and drive safe, scalable AI adoption at real enterprise scale.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.