Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect

Arm Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited is seeking a Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect to shape the performance telemetry and profiling architecture behind next-generation AI infrastructure, edge platforms, and physical AI systems.

You will architect how performance data is captured and exposed across complex SoCs, enabling analysis, optimization, and silicon debug. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for hardware-software observability and performance leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience in system architecture and performance engineering for complex compute platforms.
• Ability to characterize workloads, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems.
• Familiarity with hardware telemetry, counters, traces, and observability tooling.
• Hands-on experience with profiling tools such as Nsight, VTune, perf, Streamline, or similar.
• Strong communication and technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Define system-level performance telemetry architecture across CPUs, accelerators, memory, interconnects, and multi-die SoCs.
• Drive architecture specs and methodologies for workload characterization and performance optimization.
• Architect mechanisms to collect, correlate, and expose telemetry for analysis and debugging across hardware-software layers.
• Collaborate with SoC architects and profiling teams to translate needs into telemetry requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance to software/firmware/tooling teams to enable effective hardware telemetry usage.
• Support silicon bring-up, performance validation, and cross-team technical leadership.

Skills

System architecture

Performance engineering

Profiling

Telemetry

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware-software observability

Leadership

Debugging

Tools

NVIDIA Nsight

Intel VTune

Linux perf

Arm Streamline

Arm Performance Studio

Job description

Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect

Do you want to shape the performance telemetry and profiling architecture behind the next generation of AI infrastructure, edge platforms, and physical AI systems?

In Arm’s Central Technology Group, we are seeking a highly motivated Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect to join our diverse system architecture team!

This role is ideal for someone passionate about system performance, profiling, and hardware-software observability. You will architect how performance data is captured, correlated, and exposed across complex SoCs, enabling performance analysis, optimization, and silicon debug. Working with silicon, power, and SoC architects, performance analysis engineers, and software and tooling teams, you will help shape the performance observability capabilities of future Arm platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define system-level performance telemetry architecture, including hardware counters, events, metrics, traces, and data collection across CPUs, accelerators, memory, interconnects, I/O, and multi-die SoCs.
• Drive architecture specifications and performance analysis methodologies for workload characterization, bottleneck identification, and system optimization across Arm-based cloud, edge, and physical AI platforms.
• Architect mechanisms to collect, correlate, and expose performance telemetry across SoC components and hardware-software layers for performance analysis and debugging.
• Collaborate with SoC architects, performance modeling and analysis engineers, and profiling teams to translate performance and debug needs into hardware telemetry requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance to software, firmware, and tooling teams to enable effective use of hardware telemetry for profiling, software optimization, and platform deployment.
• Support silicon bring-up, performance validation, and debug while providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary architecture, hardware, and software teams.

Required Experience and Skills

• Relevant experience in system architecture, performance engineering, performance analysis, profiling, or performance modeling for complex compute platforms.
• Strong understanding of heterogeneous SoC architectures, including CPUs, accelerators, memory systems, interconnects, I/O, and multi-die systems.
• Experience with hardware performance counters, events, traces, profiling infrastructure, or system-level observability, and the ability to translate performance analysis needs into telemetry requirements.
• Hands-on experience with profiling tools such as NVIDIA Nsight, Intel VTune, Linux perf, Arm Streamline, Arm Performance Studio, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of performance analysis methodologies, including workload characterization, bottleneck identification, latency and bandwidth analysis, and power-performance optimization.
• Understanding of how hardware telemetry is exposed and consumed across firmware, operating systems, virtualization layers, runtimes, and developer tools.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams, with strong communication and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Have

• Experience with silicon bring-up, performance validation, debug, or hardware-software performance correlation.
• Experience with cloud-scale performance observability, capacity planning, workload placement, or infrastructure optimization.
• Understanding of platform power management, thermal behavior, RAS, and their impact on performance.

Salary Range:

$249,900-$338,100 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

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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.