Lead Software Performance Engineer (Team Lead)

Arm Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited's Userspace Performance team is seeking software performance analysis engineers to lead a small group, driving performance improvements for software on Arm systems worldwide. You will mentor engineers, plan work, and partner with other teams and external partners.

The role focuses on analysing large codebases, profiling and tracing to identify bottlenecks, and communicating findings through write-ups and presentations.

Qualifications

• You are an excellent problem solver.
• You have at least 2 years of managerial experience and a track record of timely, high quality delivery.
• Demonstrating excellent communication, being able to clearly convey complex topics.
• You will have excellent C/C++ skills
• You have experience in profiling and tracing large applications to find bottlenecks of performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the team plans and delivers tasks in a timely and organised fashion.
• People management for direct reports
• Facilitating continuous learning for the team
• Analysing and improving large codebases for different performance aspects.
• Working with the rest of the company as well as external partners and open-source communities.
• Helping design the strategies to understand the bottlenecks and what investigate next.
• Documenting the analysis performed, sharing knowledge within the team and wider.
• Producing write-ups and presentations to share with the interested parties as well as help the team handle similar problems.
• Working with different platforms that include the latest hardware, but also FPGAs and software models of upcoming hardware designs.

Skills

C/C++ skills

Problem solving

Communication

Managerial experience

Profiling & tracing

Job description

Arm Limited's Userspace Performance team is seeking software performance analysis engineers to lead a small group, driving performance improvements for software on Arm systems worldwide. You will mentor engineers, plan work, and partner with other teams and external partners.

The role focuses on analysing large codebases, profiling and tracing to identify bottlenecks, and communicating findings through write-ups and presentations.