CPU Performance s Engineer

Staff CPU Performance Workloads Engineer

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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.

• 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.

• 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 (aarch
  64 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 aarch
  64.
• Good interpersonal skills with a proven history of teamwork, collaboration, and leadership.

• 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.

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:

$,500 per year

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