SoC Performance Optimization Engineer

Arm Limited; Biot; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited is seeking a System Performance Analysis Engineer to join the CT-Solutions Performance Analysis team within Central Technology. You will run performance experiments on pre-silicon SoC platforms using simulation and hardware emulation, bringing up complex workloads and analyzing system-level performance.

The role involves identifying bottlenecks, developing benchmarks, collaborating across architecture, RTL, verification and software teams, and contributing to tooling and automation.

Qualifications

• Must have 3+ years of professional experience.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and system architecture.
• Good understanding of memory systems, cache coherency and interconnect architectures.
• Experience in performance analysis, system investigation or low-level debugging.
• Familiarity with pre-silicon environments such as simulation and/or hardware emulation.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Ruby, C or C++.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to investigate complex system interactions and performance bottlenecks.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments and Git.

Responsibilities

• Run performance experiments on pre-silicon SoC platforms using simulation and hardware emulation environments.
• Bring up and debugging complex workloads on future SoCs.
• Analyse the performance behaviour of CPUs, interconnects, memory subsystems and I/O components under realistic workloads.
• Identify and root-cause system-level performance bottlenecks.
• Develop and execute performance benchmarks, tests and analysis flows.
• Investigate performance interactions between multiple IPs and system components.
• Collaborate with architecture, design and verification teams to debug and improve SoC performance.
• Contribute to tooling and automation that improve debug efficiency and performance analysis workflows.
• Present findings and technical recommendations to engineering teams across the company.

Skills

Performance analysis

Computer architecture

Memory systems

Pre-silicon environments

Python/C/C++

Unix/Linux

Git

Debugging

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Simulation tools

Emulation platforms

Profiling tools

Job description

Arm Limited is seeking a System Performance Analysis Engineer to join the CT-Solutions Performance Analysis team within Central Technology. You will run performance experiments on pre-silicon SoC platforms using simulation and hardware emulation, bringing up complex workloads and analyzing system-level performance.

The role involves identifying bottlenecks, developing benchmarks, collaborating across architecture, RTL, verification and software teams, and contributing to tooling and automation.