Hardware Performance Analysis Engineer

Job Title

Hardware Performance Analysis Engineer

Role Summary

Analyze and diagnose performance of Arm CPUs, interconnect IP and related subsystems within cloud server System-on-Chip designs.

Work with hardware, firmware and software teams to reproduce performance issues, quantify impact, and recommend design or configuration changes to improve system performance.

Experience Level

Mid-level. Specific years of experience not specified in the source.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Investigate and root-cause performance bottlenecks across CPU cores, interconnects and SoC components.
• Design and execute benchmarks, microbenchmarks and targeted experiments on hardware and simulation platforms.
• Collect and analyze profiling data, traces and performance counters to quantify behavior.
• Develop scripts and tools to automate data collection and analysis.
• Communicate findings to architects, verification, firmware and software teams; produce technical reports.
• Contribute to performance regression suites and benchmarking infrastructure.

Requirements

Must-have and nice-to-have skills derived from the role (source did not list explicit requirements):

• Must-have: Strong understanding of CPU microarchitecture and SoC interconnect concepts; experience with performance analysis and profiling on Linux-based systems.
• Must-have: Practical scripting skills (e.g. Python, shell) to process traces and automate workflows.
• Must-have: Experience using performance tools and counters to collect and interpret profiling data.
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Arm architecture and IP, cloud server workloads, or hardware bring-up and simulation environments.
• Nice-to-have: Experience developing benchmarking infrastructure or performance regression frameworks.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Arm

Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom

ARM is a global leader in semiconductor and software design, driving innovation in computing technology. The company specializes in designing processors and systems that provide the essential building blocks for electronic devices. ARM's architecture is widely used in smartphones, servers, and IoT devices, and its collaborative culture fosters bold thinking, diversity, and high-impact benefits for its talented workforce.