Senior System Telemetry & Performance Architect

Arm; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 338,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm is seeking a Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect to shape the telemetry and profiling architecture for AI infrastructure, edge platforms, and physical AI systems. You will define hardware counters, events, traces, and data collection across multi-die SoCs and collaborate with silicon, power, and software teams to enable robust observability.

The role emphasizes performance analysis methodologies, workload characterization, and the ability to translate requirements into telemetry

Qualifications

• Experience in system architecture, performance engineering, profiling, or performance modeling for complex compute platforms.
• Strong understanding of heterogeneous SoC architectures, CPUs, accelerators, memory, interconnects, I/O, and multi-die systems.
• Experience with hardware performance counters, events, traces, profiling infrastructure, or system-level observability.
• 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.

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.

Skills

System architecture

Performance engineering

Performance analysis

Profiling

Telemetry

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Tools

Nsight

VTune

Linux perf

Arm Streamline

Arm Performance Studio

Job description

Arm is seeking a Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect to shape the telemetry and profiling architecture for AI infrastructure, edge platforms, and physical AI systems. You will define hardware counters, events, traces, and data collection across multi-die SoCs and collaborate with silicon, power, and software teams to enable robust observability.

The role emphasizes performance analysis methodologies, workload characterization, and the ability to translate requirements into telemetry