Senior/Staff Emulation Efficiency Architect

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an Emulation Efficiency Architect to enhance the performance of its emulation infrastructure. The ideal candidate will optimize workflows and integrate automation solutions to improve throughput and system availability. This role requires strong experience in emulation environments and a proven track record in benchmarking. You'll collaborate with various teams and vendors, driving continuous improvement in emulation farms globally while working within a dynamic and supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in hardware emulation environments.
• Proven ability to benchmark and profile emulation workloads.
• Understanding of availability engineering including fault detection.
• Experience integrating vendor APIs into automation solutions.
• Familiarity with scheduler design and integration.
• Proficiency in Linux-based environments and scripting for automation.
• Strong analytical mentality with a data-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark emulation workloads to quantify performance and utilization.
• Optimize scheduling and queuing to improve system availability.
• Integrate with EDA vendor APIs for automation.
• Collaborate with scheduling teams for enhanced resource allocation.
• Develop data pipelines and dashboards for performance visualization.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation.

Skills

Hardware emulation environments

Benchmarking and profiling emulation workloads

Availability engineering

Vendor API integration

Scheduler design

Linux scripting

Analytical mentality

Metrics frameworks

Tools

Cadence Palladium

Synopsys ZeBu

Siemens Veloce

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Overview:

We’re seeking an Emulation Efficiency Architect who combines system-level understanding with data-driven performance insight to improve how Arm’s emulation infrastructure operates at scale. This role focuses on improving throughput, utilization, and availability across our global emulation farms by tuning workflows, integrating automation, and partnering closely with EDA vendors.

As part of Arm’s Productivity Engineering Group, you’ll help shape the evolution of Arm’s emulation environment. Working with emulation operations, platform architects, and tool suppliers, you’ll develop strategies and integrations that elevate both platform performance and engineering productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Benchmark emulation workloads to quantify performance and utilization baselines, and track improvements over time.
• Improve system availability and job throughput by optimizing scheduling, queuing, and recovery mechanisms.
• Integrate with EDA vendor APIs to automate resource management, monitor usage, and streamline job orchestration.
• Collaborate with Arm’s in-house scheduler team to enhance scheduling intelligence and resource allocation for emulation workloads.
• Develop data pipelines and performance dashboards to visualize trends, detect inefficiencies, and guide tuning efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and workflow optimization.
• Partner with EDA tool vendors (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens) to validate and deploy performance enhancements in production workloads.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience in hardware emulation environments (Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, or Siemens Veloce).
• Proven ability to benchmark and profile emulation workloads, interpret performance data, and drive targeted improvements.
• Solid understanding of availability engineering, including fault detection, failover, and system resilience.
• Experience integrating vendor APIs or SDKs into custom automation or monitoring solutions.
• Familiarity with scheduler design and integration.
• Proficiency in Linux-based environments and scripting (Python, Bash) for automation and analysis.
• Strong analytical mentality with a data-driven, test-based approach to performance validation.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar metrics frameworks for system visibility.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• Experience building workflow orchestration or monitoring tools for large-scale verification or emulation environments.
• Exposure to cloud-hosted emulation or elastic compute models.
• Knowledge of EDA tool internals and licensing mechanisms.
• Experience collaborating with EDA vendors on joint optimization or benchmarking initiatives.

In Return:

Join a collaborative, fast-moving team solving meaningful platform challenges. You’ll have room to grow technically, contribute directly to platform strategy, and improve performance for thousands of engineers across Arm.

10x Mindset at Arm

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. Read more about how we bring the 10x mindset to life on the Arm blog.

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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