Staff Performance Analysis Engineer

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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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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