Performance Engineering Lead (C/C++, Team Leadership)

ARM LIMITED; Saffron Walden; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ARM LIMITED is seeking a leader to manage and grow a high-performance engineering team focused on delivering performant software systems. You will guide architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives that optimize profiling, tracing, and bottleneck analysis across large-scale applications.

The role emphasizes strong English communication, collaboration with internal and external partners, and a hands-on mindset to understand compiler optimizations and assembly-level

Qualifications

• Excellent problem solver.
• At least 2 years of managerial experience with a track record of timely, high quality delivery.
• Demonstrating excellent communication, ability to clearly convey complex topics.

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 memory and how they relate to application performance.

Skills

C/C++

People management

Performance profiling

Communication

Documentation & mentoring

Tools

Arm architecture tools

Profiling tools

Open-source contributions

Job description

ARM LIMITED is seeking a leader to manage and grow a high-performance engineering team focused on delivering performant software systems. You will guide architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives that optimize profiling, tracing, and bottleneck analysis across large-scale applications.

The role emphasizes strong English communication, collaboration with internal and external partners, and a hands-on mindset to understand compiler optimizations and assembly-level