Senior Performance Analysis Engineer

Job Description

Would you love to investigate performance issues and suggest product improvements on the different parts of a Cloud Server’s System-on-a-Chip? Would you like to analyze the performance of Arm's future CPUs, graphics processors (GPUs) and Interconnect IPs when they are working together?

Arm's Client 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, sophisticated workload characterization and advanced software modelling, we are regularly influencing Arm's engineering teams and its partners.

Position can be based in Cambridge or Sophia Antipolis (FR).

Responsibilities

You will join the Systems Performance Analysis team within Central Technology as the System Analysis Engineer. You will run experiments on a pre-Silicon SoC environment analysing the performance of the different Arm components (CPU, GPU, etc) using use-cases close to the ones run on Cloud Server’s System-on-a-Chip. You will help bringing up some of these use cases and understanding their behavior on future Servers. You will be in charge of finding the different potential bottlenecks and help providing solutions.

More than anything else, you have a willingness to absorb as much as possible about this new challenge. Given the impact and reach of this field, you’ll be encouraged to share this knowledge with other specialists across the company. This is centered around promoting and demonstrating the Arm core beliefs and behaviors.

Required Skills And Experience

• Detailed understanding of computer architecture.
• Familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Front End Design and/or Performance analyst experience
• Experience on Ruby, Assembly language, ideally in Arm assembly and programming languages such as C or C++.
• Proactive and motivated, able to collaborate with a Team and other groups.

Nice To Have Skills And Experience

• Experience with Unix, scripting, and source control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion).
• Familiarity with one or more CPU instruction sets.
• Familiarity with ARM architectures.
• Experience with compilers and/or device drivers.
• Flair for lateral thinking and problem solving.

In Return

Your particular benefits package will depend on position and type of employment and may be subject to change. Your package will be confirmed on offer of employment. Arm’s benefits program provides permanent employees with the opportunity to stay innovative, healthy and create a positive working environment.

• Group Personal Pension Plan with enhanced company contribution
• Medical, Travel, Health & Life Insurance
• Holiday, 25 days annual leave with option to buy an additional 5 days per year
• Sabbatical, 20 paid days every four-year of service
• Volunteering, One paid working day each year (Team-ARM)
• Cycle to work, free car parking, gym on site, team and social events

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.