Senior/Staff CPU Performance Benchmarking Engineer

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a CPU Performance Benchmarking Engineer to enhance their next generation of power-efficient CPUs. The ideal candidate will analyze CPU performance metrics, mentor junior team members, and collaborate across teams to optimize workflows, all while enjoying a dynamic and supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• Familiar with CPU micro-architecture concepts such as pipelines, caches.
• Experience with low-level embedded C or assembler coding.
• Strong experience in scripting (shell, Python, Perl).

Responsibilities

• Analyze and report CPU/IP performance over development cycles.
• Collaborate with performance engineers to improve power/performance.
• Maintain/improve infrastructure for performance evaluation.

Skills

CPU micro-architecture concepts

Embedded software development

Linux environments

Performance analysis

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or similar

Tools

HDL languages (Verilog or VHDL)

Simulators/Emulators

Job description

Are you curious about the performance and evolution of CPU micro-architectures ? As a CPU Performance Benchmarking engineer, you will be responsible for delivery of performance and power metrics to teams designing Arm's next generation of power-efficient CPUs, and to apply and enhance novel techniques to analyse data and progress performance of processors and cache systems. Your role will extend to mentoring junior team members and collaborating with other sites to optimise shared processes.

Job Overview:

You will work in collaboration with other UK based CPU engineering teams, evaluating and improving the performance features of micro-architectures utilising industry standard workloads. Continuously enriching and accelerating our methodologies to achieve this is also a key part of the role!

If exploring the internal functioning of CPUs and their performance excites you, we would like to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a world-leading CPU performance optimisation team.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse and report CPU/IP performance over their development cycle
• Collaborate with designers and other performance engineers to investigate/improve power/performance/area for IPs
• Maintain/improve infrastructure to employ targets like Emulators/Simulators/FPGA to evaluate performance/power
• Provide insights to Customers/Architects/Marketing with regards to PPA of IPs in different scenarios/use-cases

Required Skills and Experience :

• Familiar with CPU micro-architecture concepts (such as CPU pipelines, caches, predictors, MMUs)
• Experience with low-level embedded 'C' or assembler software development coding, testing, optimising and debugging
• Developing in Linux environments with strong experience in shell, Python or Perl scripting
• Experience on CPU performance analysis, especially using industry benchmarks
• Familiar with HDL languages (Verilog or VHDL) and RTL simulator or emulator execution environments

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Exposure to hardware design and/or performance modelling of CPUs or similar components
• Understanding of Arm instruction set architecture and assembly language
• Familiarity of compilers and how they do code generation
• Understanding of System Architecture
• A good equivalent university degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or another appropriate field.

In Return:

Arm is committed to global talent acquisition, offering an attractive relocation package. With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, creative and talented engineers. By enabling a dynamic, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where all our people can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their unrivaled contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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