Job ID 2025-13945
Date posted Apr. 10, 2025
Location Austin, Texas
Category Software Engineering
Job Description
At ARM, we are building the Future of Computing. Together. For Everyone. This is a technical engineering role based in Austin, Texas and part of the rapidly growing Arm Infrastructure Line of Business. Our Neoverse cores are leading a technology disruption! We need a Staff Software Performance Engineer to bolster the Arm Software Ecosystem. You will be an individual contributor working with internal and (especially) external partners on various interesting and exciting Arm SW optimization puzzles. Join us as we deliver solutions across Cloud, Edge, 5G, and Networking segments!

Responsibilities

• Help various external customers optimize large SW projects for Arm compute
• Contribute Arm performance optimizations to various open-source projects
• Educate external customers on Arm technology and optimization techniques so that they can self-serve their SW optimization efforts
• Optimize performance and scalability across various classes of workloads; Webservers, databases (SQL/NoSQL), Runtime engines (Java & .NET), Virtualization stacks (KVM), SIMD (Neon/SVE/AVX), ML
• Deliver workload performance analysis reports in written and presentation form, to internal and external customers
• Support Infrastructure Technical Marketing activities by writing blogs/whitepapers, presenting webinars, conference talks, and conference booth staffing
• 1-4 weeks of travel throughout the year

Required Skills and Experience

• Direct Engineering Customer Support and Engagement
• Significant experience in SW performance optimization and SW architecture
• Significant experience in HW architecture and HW performance analysis
• Experience in either runtime engines, virtualization, or SIMD
• Must be a good communicator (written and presentation)
• Teach and mentor others

“Nice To Have”

• Experience on SIMD optimization techniques; Auto-vectorization friendly coding, SIMD intrinsics coding, SIMD assembly coding
• Java Virtual Machine internals; Garbage Collection, interpreter, JITer
• Virtualization analysis and optimization; KVM, Virtual Memory Management
• Performance optimization of SW from the application level, system libraries level, and the kernel level
• CPU/SoC architecture concepts; cache coherence, out-of-order pipelining, memory consistency models, interconnect, speculative execution, performance counters, etc.

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 quirky not egocentric
• Recognize the power in saying ‘I don’t know’

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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 any characteristic.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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 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

• Help various external customers optimize large SW projects for Arm compute
• Contribute Arm performance optimizations to various open-source projects
• Educate external customers on Arm technology and optimization techniques so that they can self-serve their SW optimization efforts
• Optimize performance and scalability across various classes of workloads; Webservers, databases (SQL/NoSQL), Runtime engines (Java & .NET), Virtualization stacks (KVM), SIMD (Neon/SVE/AVX), ML
• Deliver workload performance analysis reports in written and presentation form, to internal and external customers
• Support Infrastructure Technical Marketing activities by writing blogs/whitepapers, presenting webinars, conference talks, and conference booth staffing
• 1-4 weeks of travel throughout the yea