Job ID 2025-13527
Date posted Jul. 17, 2025
Location Sheffield, United Kingdom
Category Software Engineering
Staff Systems Performance Analysis Engineer

Job Overview:

• Passionate in analysing performance bottlenecks and driving architectural improvements
• Eager to expand into building SoC platforms for performance analysis?

Arm’s System-on-Chip (SoC) Performance Analysis Team in Central Technology Group builds early Performance analysis platforms to enable system technology exploration on future Arm System/SoC architecture. Using workload characterization and analysis, we influence future SoC, CPU and IP designs.
We are seeking highly skilled and motivated performance analysis engineers to join our diverse team at Arm!
Responsibilities:

As a Performance Analysis engineer you will be working on multiple aspects of performance analysis, including:

• You will run experiments on a pre-Silicon SoC environment analyzing performance of the different Arm components (CPU, GPU, etc) using real world workloads.
• You will bring up these use cases and understand their behavior in SoC environment.
• You will find potential bottlenecks and help provide solutions.
• Collaborate with system architects to define future system architectures and create performance-driven test plans
• Characterize real-world use cases and design workloads to evaluate system performance
• Explore innovative approaches for workload analysis and develop supporting tools and workflows

Required Skills and Experience:

• Detailed understanding of computer architecture, microarchitecture and bus protocols
• Experience in Python/Ruby, C/C++ and assembly language
• Hands on experience in analyzing performance bottlenecks
• Experience enabling workloads and benchmarks on RTL Emulation and Simulation environments
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Collaborative across teams and sites
• Proactive with strong problem-solving ability

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux, scripting, and source control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion).
• Familiarity with one or more CPU instruction sets
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog
• Familiarity with ARM architecture
• Experience with compilers, assemblers, or device drivers.

In Return:
You will utilize your engineering skills to build support for technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. You’ll share ideas with and learn new skills from some of the best engineers in the world!
Accommodations at Arm
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Hybrid Working at Arm
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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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