Performance Engineer – Engineering Platforms

Arm; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Performance Engineer to optimize compute, storage, and workflow performance across its engineering platform. This role involves diagnosing bottlenecks, analyzing system performance, and developing tools to enhance operations. Candidates should have experience in performance-sensitive Linux environments and familiarity with monitoring and profiling tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux-based environments, especially performance-sensitive contexts.
• Ability to analyze and optimize compute and storage infrastructure.
• Experience with EDA workflows or engineering compute pipelines is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance of compute and storage infrastructure in production.
• Identify areas for tuning based on metrics and system behavior.
• Develop tooling and dashboards to surface performance trends.

Skills

Performance analysis

Troubleshooting

Data-informed approach

Monitoring tools knowledge

Linux environments

Job scheduling exposure

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Profiling tools

Basic job scheduling systems

Job description

Job Overview:

Arm is looking for a Performance Engineer to help optimise compute, storage, and workflow performance across our engineering platform. You’ll focus on identifying inefficiencies, diagnosing bottlenecks, and supporting improvements across large-scale compute clusters and cloud environments.

This role is part of our broader effort to improve infrastructure efficiency and support the evolving demands of high-throughput workloads, including verification and implementation workloads.

You’ll work closely with architects, infrastructure teams, and flow owners to analyze real-world usage and help ensure our systems are tuned for performance and scale.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse performance of compute and storage infrastructure in production
• Identify areas for tuning based on metrics and system behavior
• Support improvements to job configurations and scheduling efficiency
• Help develop tooling and dashboards to surface performance trends
• Collaborate with platform and flow teams to validate and document findings

Required skills and experience:

• Experience working in Linux-based environments, particularly in performance-sensitive contexts
• General experience working in compute or storage-heavy environments
• Exposure to basic job scheduling systems (e.g., LSF, Jenkins, SLURM)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Linux-based telemetry
• Familiarity with profiling tools
• Ability to troubleshoot issues related to CPU, memory, I/O, or network performance
• Methodical, data-informed approach to diagnosing and testing changes

'Nice to have' skills and experience:

• Knowledge of how engineering teams use simulation tools or other high-throughput workloads
• Experience with EDA tooling and workflow patterns
• Experience with EDA workflows or engineering compute pipelines

In return:
You’ll work on meaningful technical challenges in a supportive and fast-paced environment. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge compute infrastructure and the opportunity to grow into a more senior performance or systems architecture role over time.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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