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Staff CPU Performance Workloads Engineer

Job ID 2025-16402 Date posted Dec. 11, 2025 Location Austin, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

Do you consider yourself a creative, innovative problem solver? Would you like to influence the design of CPUs that will be used in billions of devices worldwide, while flexing your software expertise?

We are looking for experienced computer engineers to join our Austin, Tx or Raleigh, NC teams, who are passionate about solving challenging problems at the intersection of software and hardware development, understanding and enabling the workloads of the future for the next-generation of high-performance CPUs.

Responsibilities:

  • You will contribute to the definition of next generation CPU architectures by analyzing new applications and benchmarks, and by proposing new insights on methodologies that push the state of the art in workload analysis, characterization and capture.
  • You will drive consensus across project management, marketing, and technical leads, aligning on workload definitions that will represent market requirements for future CPU products.
  • Through your technical and leadership experience, you will propose, support, and participate in the collaborative development of innovative ways of making relevant workloads suitable for sophisticated simulation and emulation platforms, targeting the latest architectural features.
  • You will help maintain, extend, and improve existing methodologies and tools, while developing new tools and enabling new team capabilities.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • An engineering mind-set with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Good object-oriented programming, preferably C++ or Java, plus experience with assembly (aarch64 preferred), C, Python and shell scripting
  • Performance analysis and debug of software, preferably under pre-silicon simulation or emulation environments
  • Detailed understanding of fundamental operating system internals such as virtual memory and schedulers
  • Experience with compilers such as gcc and llvm, targeting aarch64
  • Good interpersonal skills with a proven history of teamwork, collaboration, and leadership

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Detailed understanding of computer architecture fundamentals
  • Experience with industry standard workloads and benchmarks, with AI/ML workload experiences a plus
  • In-depth understanding of Linux, Android, and/or Windows OS's, with experience in OS bring up, porting, and tuning for a new architecture or platform a plus.
  • Experience with CPU/System performance analysis, performance counters and workload characterization tools
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and reviewing shared tooling

In Return:

At Arm, you will thrive in a highly stimulating and collaborative environment. You will be encouraged to share your ideas and experiences, while learning new skills from the best engineers in the world. We work in small teams, so your contributions are important, and your work will make a real difference!

Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work: https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset

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Salary Range:

$191,100-$258,500 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation 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 or adjustment 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.

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.

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