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Staff Performance Engineer

Job ID 2025-13897 Date posted Apr. 03, 2025 Location Austin, Texas Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Want to work with a team of performance and tooling engineers building infrastructure and solving meaningful problems? You’ll need to have architecture and software development skills, in addition to being able to think creatively. Performance engineering is crucial to push the limits of Arm designs and ensuring both hardware and software are well optimized, and with our team, you will have the opportunity to work directly with other hard-working tooling engineers and performance engineers alike.

Job Overview:

Our team of engineers work closely in an agile methodology to build intuitive, well-crafted, and reliable automation tools. We help develop software that strives to improve performance engineering in Arm Infrastructure, ensuring the integrity of our benchmarking results and offering insights into performance. Additionally, we provide teams with reliable bare-metal provisioning, hardware solutions and debugging, and CI/CD flows.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify and help lead development on new performance tooling automating features, ranging anywhere from Python modules and scripts to low level C code for interacting with hardware features of bare-metal nodes
  • Collaborate with performance and solutions engineers to help implement new performance flows and performance profiling tools into automation
  • Help run a bare metal provisioning lab through firmware, PXE deployments, kernel builds, networking infrastructure, and BIOS automations such as Redfish and Dell Syscfg
  • Onboard engineers and workloads into benchmarking automation suites using Ansible and Terraform
  • Assist in forward looking performance models through the use of performance comparisons and benchmarking automation
  • Mentor other automation engineers and help build positive relationships with performance engineers and product managers to help drive wider engagement and awareness

Required Skills and Experience :

  • 4+ years of experience in computer engineering, software engineering, or tooling automation
  • Expertise in Linux development environments
  • Proven software engineering knowledge across a wide variety of languages, including C/C++, Python, Java/Groovy, Javascript, HTML
  • Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases, especially MongoDB
  • Solid understanding of infrastructure services, CI/CD, and system administration
  • Deep familiarity and curiosity in computer hardware and knowledgable in basic computer architecture
  • Hardware tinkering skills such as the ability to use JTAG, UART, and serial console management
  • Well developed soft skills and a demonstrated ability to bridge teams and mentor other engineers
  • Passion for automation - using technology, coding or otherwise, to help automate tasks

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Experience with provisioning tools and cloud deployments such as Terraform with AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience handling deployed resources using automation tools such as Ansible
  • Performance benchmarking experience - anything from running workloads and collecting profiling data
  • Networking engineering knowledge and networking configuration experience using switches and routers
  • Ability to provide system administration through ZFS, NFS, and the like

In Return:

At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our rare culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to surpass ordinary and shape extraordinary:

We not I

  • Take daily responsibility to make the Global Arm community thrive
  • No individual is responsible for the right answer. Brilliance is collective!
  • Information is crucial, share it
  • Realize that we win when we collaborate — and that everyone misses out when we don’t

Passion for progress

  • Our differences are our strength. Widen and mix up your network of connections
  • Difficult things can take unexpected directions. Stick with it
  • Make feedback positive and expansive, not negative and narrow!
  • The essence of progress is that it can’t stop. Grow with it and lead your own progress

Be your brilliant self

  • Be non-traditional not egocentric
  • Recognize the power in saying ‘I don’t know’

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation, 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 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.

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.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s hybrid approach to working is centered around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, 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.

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 our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self 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 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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