Arm · 1 week ago
Staff Software Performance Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$191K/yr - $258K/yrArm is a company focused on building the Future of Computing. They are seeking a Staff Software Performance Engineer to optimize software performance for various external customers and contribute to open-source projects, while also educating clients on Arm technology and optimization techniques.
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Responsibilities
Help various external customers optimize large SW projects for Arm compute
Contribute Arm performance optimizations to various open-source projects
Educate external customers on Arm technology and optimization techniques so that they can self-serve their SW optimization efforts
Optimize performance and scalability across various classes of workloads; Webservers, databases (SQL/NoSQL), Runtime engines (Java & .NET), Virtualization stacks (KVM), SIMD (Neon/SVE/AVX), ML
Deliver workload performance analysis reports in written and presentation form, to internal and external customers
Support Infrastructure Technical Marketing activities by writing blogs/whitepapers, presenting webinars, conference talks, and conference booth staffing
1-4 weeks of travel throughout the year
Qualification
Required
Direct Engineering Customer Support and Engagement
Significant experience in SW performance optimization and SW architecture
Significant experience in HW architecture and HW performance analysis
Experience in SIMD; Auto-vectorization, intrinsics, and assembly (NEON, SVE, AVX, SSE, etc)
Must be a good communicator (written and presentation)
Teach and mentor others
Preferred
Java Virtual Machine internals; Garbage Collection, interpreter, JITer
Virtualization analysis and optimization; KVM, Virtual Memory Management
Performance optimization of SW from the application level, system libraries level, and the kernel level
CPU/SoC architecture concepts; cache coherence, out-of-order pipelining, memory consistency models, interconnect, speculative execution, performance counters, etc
Benefits
Accommodations at Arm
Hybrid Working at Arm
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Company
Arm
Arm’s foundational technology is defining the future of computing. A future built by the greatest technology ecosystem in the world.
Founded in 1990
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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unknown2016-07-18Acquired
1999-01-15IPO
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CEO
Jason Child
EVP & CFO
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