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Senior SW Engineer - System Performance Analysis

Job ID 2025-13424 Date posted Feb. 03, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:


Are you a senior level engineer with a strong understanding of software and/or computer architecture, and with a passion for performance analysis?

Our team works with Arm's partners to understand their view of what the most important applications are, and how they perform on consumer devices such as mobile phones and laptops. By understanding how these applications utilise Arms CPUs, GPUs and system IP we learn how to improve our products, influence future roadmaps, and help OEMs (Own Equipment Manufacturers) and SIPs (Silicon Integration Partners) make better products.

Using our close relationship with developers and ecosystem partners, including game studios, we explore the latest technologies including games, groundbreaking camera algorithms, media streaming, browsers, productivity, and ML based use cases.

Responsibilities:


Produce reliable and robust research and analytics; devise and investigate new ideas for workload analysis, and the development of new and innovative tools.

Characterise real world use cases and build representative workloads that will be used by multiple analysis and development teams across Arm.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • A solid understanding of Heterogeneous Computing platforms for mobile platforms, and the factors that impact on performance
  • Understanding of the interactions between applications and OS Kernel, and hardware
  • Ability to understand and discuss deep technical topics at different levels to a wide range of audiences
  • Ability to represent complex data with innovative visualisations.


“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

The following are some of the skills and knowledge you will acquire in this role, so existing experience or interest in any of these areas would be of benefit!

  • Detailed performance analysis of computing platforms
  • Experience building applications for mobile or windows platforms
  • Experience analysing and optimising performance of applications.


In Return:


The successful applicant will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Arm’s products, build relationships with the key partners in our ecosystems and play a meaningful role in the delivery of new technology to billions of people. Across our group, there is ample opportunity to improve your technical expertise and diversify into other areas by collaborating with the many teams within Arm. You will regularly work with CPU/GPU designers, architects, and product managers as well as with world leading technology companies.

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