Staff Performance Engineer

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Want to work with a team of performance and software engineers building infrastructure and solving meaningful problems? You ll need to have architecture and software development skills, in addition to being able to think creatively. Performance engineering is crucial to push the limits of Arm designs and ensuring both hardware and software are well optimized, and with our team, you will have the opportunity to work directly with other hard-working software engineers and performance engineers alike.

Responsibilities:

As a seasoned performance engineer, you will be working on optimizing server workloads, their behavior on various server platforms, and resolving how to improve their performance including:

• Leveraging your workload and platform expertise at various levels including SW stack, platform, SOC and CPU cores
• Benchmarking workloads on various server platforms, collecting and analyzing telemetry data
• Developing and enhancing innovative tools for performance analysis/performance regressions
• Build on you existing knowledge of computer architecture and micro-architecture, and leveraging it to root cause performance issues
• Working in a highly collaborative environment with engineers spanning multiple organizations
• Contributing to future server designs
• Mentoring junior engineers to achieve and exceed team level goals
• Identifying technical and process gaps and driving closure

Required Skills and Experience:

• Obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; Masters degree highly preferred
• Knowledge of computer architecture/microarchitecture
• Strong programming experience in C, C and scripting languages
• Familiarity with industry standard benchmarks and cloud native applications
• Mastery in server applications and system and software debug
• Understanding of emerging workloads and areas of compute, including AI
• Proven experience working with customers on performance analysis and debug
• Experience using distributed source control, e.g. Git
• Proven data analysis capability
• Willingness to learn new skills pertaining to workload execution and analysis in pre- and post-silicon environments.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment
• Speak and writes English fluently

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Python and Object Orientated Design
• Familiarity with databases, preferably NoSQL based
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and pipelines

In Return:

At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our rare culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to surpass ordinary and shape extraordinary:

We not I

• Take daily responsibility to make the Global Arm community thrive
• No individual is responsible for the right answer. Brilliance is collective!
• Information is crucial, share it
• Realize that we win when we collaborate and that everyone misses out when we don t

Passion for progress

• Our differences are our strength. Widen and mix up your network of connections
• Difficult things can take unexpected directions. Stick with it
• Make feedback positive and expansive, not negative and narrow!
• The essence of progress is that it can t stop. Grow with it and lead your own progress

Be your brilliant self

• Be quirky not egocentric
• Recognize the power in saying I don t know

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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 any characteristic.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self 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 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.

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.

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.