Senior Performance Bring Up Engineer

Job Overview:

Here at Arm, we are building the Future of Computing. This is a technical engineering role based in the US and part of the rapidly growing Arm Infrastructure Line of Business. Our Neoverse cores & interconnect are leading a technology disruption! We need a Senior Performance & Power bring up engineer to work with our internal design teams and engage with external partners to enable and support Arm Infrastructure hardware & software ecosystem.

The candidate will need skills in the areas of performance analysis, hands on lab experience doing silicon bring up & performance debug skills. The successful candidate should have experience with some or all the following: CPU/memory architectures, PCIe architecture and cloud system/platform architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding real-world Server use-cases and adding new workloads to a bring-up suite
• Use Linux performance tools, SOC performance monitors, Telemetry, Top-Down, trace and debug sub system to characterize & deep dive into workloads.
• Collaborating with multiple teams developing Server IP across the organization
• Supporting customers with functional and performance/power debug & root cause during the bring up phase
• Develop deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture, interconnect micro-architecture design, PCIe and CHI protocols, system benchmarking techniques, and perf/power optimization methods.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Obtained a Bachelor's, Master's, PhD degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience with silicon bring up & hands on lab experience
• Experience understanding workload performance bottlenecks across HW and SW stack, and comfortable working in a Linux environment
• Understanding of general-purpose CPU microarchitecture, including knowledge of areas such as processor pipelines, caches, and memory hierarchy
• Shown ability to collaborate with various engineering teams and drive performance & power observations to closure

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Understanding of Arm architecture & SW ecosystem
• Understanding of critical industry server workloads and system interactions and dependencies
• Proficient in analyzing, debugging and tuning performance of complex system software stacks.
• Knowledge of multicore hardware, interconnect micro-architecture design, PCIe and CHI protocols.
• Familiar using debugger such as Lauterbach or Arm Debugger to debug software/SOC
• Familiar with scanchain, array dump, HW debug techniques
• Familiar extending h/w debuggers with scripts for functional and performance debug.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together!

• Partner and customer focus
• Teamwork and communication
• Creativity and innovation
• Team and personal development
• Impact and influence
• Deliver on your promises

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