What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Performance Applications Engineer position at Arm?
Job ID 2025-14299 Date posted 09/12/2025 Location Austin, Texas Category Applications Engineering
Applications Engineering is a multifaceted and wide-ranging role that combines deep technical expertise with outstanding interpersonal skills. As a Performance Applications Engineer at Arm, you will mainly work with our partners to guide them through difficult and exciting software technical challenges!
Responsibilities
You will engage with Arm's partners through web portal and virtual meetings to tackle sophisticated performance debug and optimization problems revolving around Arm IP and Arm-based systems. You will help to debug hardware performance issues during the SoC bring-up stage. You will support Arm's performance debug tools to help partners understand how hardware features impact the workloads of interest, and how to tune hardware and software to achieve the highest level of performance. As your experience grow, you will develop and present training courses on Arm's SoC, performance tooling, and processes to partner development teams. You will also collaborate closely with other product engineering groups, acting as the voice of the customer to motivate change and improve existing products through raising defects, reviewing documentation, crafting software examples and knowledge articles to facilitate proactive learning.
Required Skills And Experience
In return, you will be provided with an encouraging, friendly, and high-performing environment where you can learn and develop the skills needed to succeed in this role. Arm offers a competitive benefits package with hybrid office-home work scheme, excellent work-life balance, and an accepting and collaborative work culture to foster personal career and technical development.
10x Mindset at Arm
At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Read more about how we bring the 10x mindset to life on the Arm blog.
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Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
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.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centred around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Salary Range
Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work:
$191,100-$258,500 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
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.
Applications Engineering is a multifaceted and wide-ranging role that combines deep technical expertise with outstanding interpersonal skills. As a Performance Applications Engineer at Arm, you will mainly work with our partners to guide them through difficult and exciting software technical challenges!
Responsibilities
You will engage with Arm's partners through web portal and virtual meetings to tackle sophisticated performance debug and optimization problems revolving around Arm IP and Arm-based systems. You will help to debug hardware performance issues during the SoC bring-up stage. You will support Arm's performance debug tools to help partners understand how hardware features impact the workloads of interest, and how to tune hardware and software to achieve the highest level of performance. As your experience grow, you will develop and present training courses on Arm's SoC, performance tooling, and processes to partner development teams. You will also collaborate closely with other product engineering groups, acting as the voice of the customer to motivate change and improve existing products through raising defects, reviewing documentation, crafting software examples and knowledge articles to facilitate proactive learning.
Required Skills And Experience
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering (other subject areas will also be considered with meaningful experience)
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in workload performance debug and optimization
- Experience doing performance analysis for industry standard benchmarks and workloads on real and simulated platforms
- Experience with software performance analysis and debug tools and applications, including perf().
- Understanding of processors macro and microarchitecture
- Comprehension of the interaction between software and hardware
- Plentiful experience crafting and debugging software in C and C
- Strong foundational knowledge of SoC architectures, particularly CPU clusters, interconnects, and memory subsystems
- Experience using software debuggers, compilers, modeling solutions, and simulation
- Familiarity with Arm products and Arm's software ecosystem
- Experience working directly with external and internal customers
- Ability to learn new hardware system features quickly
- Ability to take on explorative work individually
In return, you will be provided with an encouraging, friendly, and high-performing environment where you can learn and develop the skills needed to succeed in this role. Arm offers a competitive benefits package with hybrid office-home work scheme, excellent work-life balance, and an accepting and collaborative work culture to foster personal career and technical development.
10x Mindset at Arm
At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Read more about how we bring the 10x mindset to life on the Arm blog.
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Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
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.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centred around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Salary Range
Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work:
$191,100-$258,500 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
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.
Salary : $191,100 - $258,500