What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Performance Engineer position at Arm?
Job ID 2025-13896 Date posted 26/03/2025 Location Austin, Texas Category IT
Job Description
Want to work with a team of performance and software 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 essential 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 software engineers and performance engineers alike.
Responsibilities
As a performance engineer, you will be working on understanding server workloads, their behavior on various server platforms, and resolving how to improve their performance including
We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to resist ordinary and craft outstanding!
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.
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.
Salary Range
$185,491-$250,958 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
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.
Job Description
Want to work with a team of performance and software 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 essential 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 software engineers and performance engineers alike.
Responsibilities
As a performance engineer, you will be working on understanding server workloads, their behavior on various server platforms, and resolving how to improve their performance including
- Developing deeper understanding of workloads at different levels including SW stack, platform, SOC and CPU cores
- Benchmarking workloads on various server platforms and collecting telemetry data
- Developing and enhancing innovative tools for performance analysis/performance regressions
- Gaining knowledge of computer architecture and micro-architecture, and demonstrating it to root cause performance issues
- Working in a highly collaborative environment with engineers spanning multiple organizations
- Contributing to future server designs
- Obtained a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
- Computer architecture/microarchitecture and strong programming experience in C, C and scripting languages
- Familiarity with industry standard benchmarks and cloud native applications and understanding of emerging workloads and areas of compute, including AI
- Experience using distributed source control, e.g. Git
- Shown data analysis capability and comfortable in a Linux environment
- Background or experience in server applications and system and software debug
- Willingness to learn new skills pertaining to workload execution and analysis in pre- and post-silicon environments.
- Experience with Python and Object Orientated Design
- Familiarity with databases, preferably NoSQL based
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and pipelines
We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to resist ordinary and craft outstanding!
- Partner and customer focus
- Collaboration and communication
- Creativity and innovation
- Team and personal development
- Impact and influence
- Deliver on your promises
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.
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.
Salary Range
$185,491-$250,958 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
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.
Salary : $185,491 - $250,958
