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Senior Performance Engineer

Senior Performance Engineer

ArmCambridge, England, United Kingdom
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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Job Overview

We’re seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to lead performance analysis and tuning across Arm’s engineering compute platform. You’ll help uncover efficiency gaps and shape improvements across cloud-native systems, high-performance compute clusters, large-scale storage infrastructure, FPGA and Emulators.

Job Overview

We’re seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to lead performance analysis and tuning across Arm’s engineering compute platform. You’ll help uncover efficiency gaps and shape improvements across cloud-native systems, high-performance compute clusters, large-scale storage infrastructure, FPGA and Emulators.

This role focuses on real-world performance insights, helping teams better utilise compute and storage resources to support large-scale EDA workloads. You’ll work with platform teams, architects, EDA vendors, Cloud Service Providers, and 3rd party tooling vendors to ensure our platforms delivers the throughput, scale, and efficiency required by engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Analyse and improve performance across compute, scheduling, and storage layers
  • Identify bottlenecks and propose actionable tuning strategies
  • Collaborate with flow teams and vendors to optimise tool usage and deployment
  • Contribute to observability tooling to support analysis and long-term tuning
  • Help define metrics to guide ongoing capacity optimisation work

Required Skills And Experience

  • Proven performance tuning experience in large-scale EDA environments
  • Deep familiarity with HPC or large-scale cloud-native compute environments
  • Experience tuning network-attached storage (NAS) and managing storage performance
  • Hands-on knowledge of job schedulers like LSF, SLURM, or cloud-native batch systems
  • Familiarity with tools for tracing, profiling, and monitoring production clusters
  • Comfortable tuning kernel / system parameters and working with external vendors
  • Strong, hands-on debugging and clear documentation practices
  • Nice To Have” Skills And Experience

  • Practical experience with distributed tracing in multi-stage workflows
  • Prior work with EDA tools or simulation pipelines, including performance validation and licensing behaviours
  • Ability to work with vendors on roadmap discussions and performance fixes
  • In return

    Join a collaborative, fast-moving team solving meaningful platform challenges. You’ll have room to grow technically, contribute directly to platform strategy, and improve performance for thousands of engineers across Arm.

    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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    Engineering and Information Technology

    Industries

    Semiconductor Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computer Hardware Manufacturing

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