Staff Software Performance Engineer - Team Lead

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

Required Skills and Experience

• You are an excellent problem solver.
• You have at least 2 years of managerial experience and a track record of timely, high quality delivery.
• Demonstrating excellent communication, being able to clearly convey complex topics.
• You will have excellent C/C++ skills.
• You have experience in profiling and tracing large applications to find bottlenecks of performance.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience

• You are passionate about coaching others and growing the team's capabilities.
• Understanding how sophisticated software (including web servers, databases, mobile applications, and many others) function and what matters for performance is highly valued.
• We are seeking understanding of OS concepts such as processes, threads, locks, virtual.
• Improve the performance of the workloads we are working on.
• Often we will connect with partner companies helping them to understand what performance issues they are facing.
• Our goals include influencing decisions that hardware design teams make to improve performance of future designs.
• Your strong interpersonal skills are vital for success; we are looking for excellent written and spoken English and be capable of writing documentation and mentoring junior engineers.

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.
• Good awareness of the details of System Architecture (pipelines, caches, MMUs, interconnect, timers, multithreading) is highly useful.
• We find understanding of compiler optimizations very useful.
• Ability to reason about generated assembly code is highly desired.
• We value familiarity with open-source project development cycles and contribution processes.
• We are seeking an understanding of Arm architecture and tools.

In Return

On top of the already compelling Life at Arm, we are famous for our team culture - including Friday focus times, regular career conversations, remarkable diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and continuous improvement mentality.

Additional Information

Please note that no relocation package is available for this role. If skilled worker sponsorship is required, Arm will meet costs associated with sponsorship for the employer only. All fees associated with the individual's application e.g. visa application fee and Immigration Health Surcharge, will be the responsibility of the successful candidate.

Accommodations

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

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 at Arm

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