Staff Performance Analysis Engineer - #1708311

As the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology, Arm provides efficient, low-power chip technology making electronic innovations come to life. Our hard-working and creative engineers are having a significant impact in building a rich ecosystem by developing CPUs, graphics processors, various system IPs, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. These contributions have enabled more than one thousand Arm partners to ship over 100 billion groundbreaking Arm-powered processors.

Arm's Solutions Performance Analysis team is a team of highly motivated engineers ensuring that we maintain our leadership in mobile computing by helping our partners build outstanding products. Using detailed competitive analysis, workload characterization, and performance analysis, we are regularly influencing future generation of CPUs and IPs.

In this position, you would join a team investigating performance issues and suggest improvements on the different parts of Arm's future IPs and System-on-Chip designs.

Responsibilities

As a Performance Analysis engineer you will be working on multiple aspects of the performance analysis, including

• Characterize real world use cases and build workloads that will be used to understand system performance(Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon).
• Devise and investigate new ideas for workload analysis and development of new tools and flows.
• Bring-up RTL(Simulation and Emulation) performance analysis platforms based on future Arm System/SoC architecture.
• Collaborate with system and performance architects to define the future system architecture for improved performance.
  
  

Required Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of performance analysis and/or software/hardware development experience with a degree in Computer Science, or similar field.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and microarchitecture concepts such as Cache hierarchy, Memory access efficiency, Multi-core architecture, Bus protocols and key performance concepts and metrics.
• Experience enabling workloads and benchmarks on RTL Emulation and Dynamic-Simulation environments such as Cadence Xcelium/Palladium, Synopsys VCS/Zebu, Siemens-Strato/QuestaSim etc.
• 2+ years of experience implementing RTL modules or make changes to existing RTL modules using Verilog/System Verilog.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Ruby, C/C++, Javascript etc.
  
  

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with frameworks such as Buildroot to build Linux software stack and device drivers/kernel modules.
• Experience using Linux environment and source control systems (e.g., Git).
• Team leading and technical lead experience.
• Able to work in teams and to collaborate with colleagues in other groups and sites.
  
  

In Return

At Arm, we are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape outstanding! These behaviors are assessed as part of the recruitment process

• Teamwork and communication
• Creativity and innovation
• Team and personal development
• Impact and influence
  
  

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Accommodations at Arm

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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.