Senior Engineer, Arm On Arm

CamWebDir; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking a highly motivated engineer to help drive benchmarks and optimization across Arm-based compute platforms. You will collaborate with partners, including EDA vendors, to port and optimize services and code for the latest Arm microarchitectures.

The role covers diagnosing performance issues and supporting deployment on both on-premises and cloud environments. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong problem solving, lower-level programming skills, and hands-on experience with software

Qualifications

• Demonstrated problem solving ability and commitment to achieving a solution.
• Programming expertise, including with lower level languages.
• Software optimisation techniques.
• Experience of benchmarking to generate robust measurements of performance.
• IT Infrastructure awareness: server configuration, networking, storage and datacentre environments.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the development and execution of rigorous benchmarks based on real workloads at Arm, across multiple tools and compute platforms.
• Support partners (especially EDA software vendors), answering technical queries where they have questions relating to porting code or services to Arm. See these through to resolution, potentially over an extended period.
• Diagnose problems, identifying compatibility or performance issues and addressing them as appropriate. These could arise from our own testing, third party investigations or be raised by colleagues across Arm's Engineering and IT groups. You will need to work closely with all relevant partners to do so.
• Support the deployment of Arm based compute on prem and in the cloud.

Skills

Problem solving

Lower-level programming

Software optimization

Benchmarking

IT infrastructure awareness

Tools

EDA tools

Cloud platforms/OpenStack

Job description

Job Overview

The Arm on Arm team drives the move to Arm-based platforms for all the compute used at Arm in the delivery of our business, whether that is in our engineering compute clusters, enterprise workflows, or on colleagues laptops. We have the remit to do whatever is needed to make that migration happen, whether that's working with our partners in the supply chain across software vendors, hardware companies and cloud operators; ensuring our internal IT systems provide access to Arm-based compute, or helping individual teams within the company to migrate their specific use case to Arm. We also collaborate with Arm's Business Units to share the benefits of our work publicly, in support of our ecosystem partners.

We are looking for a team member who is keen to get stuck in at all levels of the stack, from racking and building prototype Arm servers through helping partners to optimise their code for the latest microarchitecture and bug finding in the Linux kernel to promoting the use of AArch64 across Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the development and execution of rigorous benchmarks based on real workloads at Arm, across multiple tools and compute platforms.


• Support partners (especially EDA software vendors), answering technical queries where they have questions relating to porting code or services to Arm. See these through to resolution, potentially over an extended period.


• Diagnose problems, identifying compatibility or performance issues and addressing them as appropriate. These could arise from our own testing, third party investigations or be raised by colleagues across Arm's Engineering and IT groups. You will need to work closely with all relevant partners to do so.


• Support the deployment of Arm based compute on prem and in the cloud.

Required Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated problem solving ability and commitment to achieving a solution.


• Programming expertise, including with lower level languages.


• Software optimisation techniques.


• Experience of benchmarking to generate robust measurements of performance.


• IT Infrastructure awareness: server configuration, networking, storage and datacentre environments.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience

• Understanding of EDA landscape and ideally experience in using tools.


• Knowledge of Neoverse micro-architectures


• Experience of Cloud platforms and/or OpenStack


• IT Service operations

In Return

Joining Arm means being part of a world-class team that is high-reaching and determined to achieve outstanding results. You will collaborate with industry leaders and innovators, contributing to flawless service builds that improve our global operations. We provide an encouraging and inclusive environment that encourages continuous learning and professional growth. Your success is our success, and together we can build services that compete on the world stage!

Our 10x Mindset

At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Discover how the 10x mindset shapes life at Arm: https://careers.arm.com/10x-mindset

Use of AI in Your Application

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Hybrid Working

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities

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.