Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect

Job Title

Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect

Role Summary

Architect and define system-level performance telemetry and profiling for complex Arm-based SoCs and systems, including data capture, correlation, and exposure across hardware and software layers. Work with SoC, power, and silicon architects, performance analysis engineers, and software/tooling teams to enable performance analysis, optimization, and silicon debug.

Experience Level

Senior-level (Principal). Years of experience not specified in the posting.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and specification of performance telemetry across compute, accelerators, memory, interconnects, and multi-die systems; provide technical leadership through silicon bring-up and platform deployment.

• Define system-level performance telemetry architecture: 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.
• Architect mechanisms to collect, correlate, and expose telemetry across SoC components and hardware–software layers for analysis and debugging.
• Collaborate with SoC architects, modeling and analysis engineers, and profiling teams to convert analysis needs into telemetry requirements.
• Provide guidance to software, firmware, and tooling teams to enable effective use of hardware telemetry for profiling and optimization.
• Support silicon bring-up, performance validation, and debug; provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

Core technical skills and domain experience required to perform the role.

• 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 translating 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 equivalents.
• Knowledge of performance analysis methodologies: workload characterization, bottleneck identification, latency and bandwidth analysis, and power–performance optimization.
• Understanding of how hardware telemetry is exposed and consumed across firmware, OS, virtualization layers, runtimes, and developer tools.
• Proven ability to collaborate across functions 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.

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.