Senior Hardware Acceleration Efficiency Architect

Job Title

Senior Hardware Acceleration Efficiency Architect

Role Summary

Owner for improving performance, utilization, and availability of Arm's emulation and FPGA hardware-acceleration infrastructure. Work across emulation, FPGA, scheduling, operations, and EDA vendor integrations to increase platform throughput and engineering productivity at scale.

Experience Level

Senior — requires demonstrated experience; posting specifies a minimum of 5 years in hardware emulation and FPGA environments.

Responsibilities

Responsible for measuring, diagnosing, and improving throughput, availability, and resource efficiency for emulation and FPGA platforms.

• Benchmark and profile emulation and FPGA workloads to establish baselines and measure improvements.
• Optimize scheduling, queuing, and recovery mechanisms to improve system availability and job throughput.
• Integrate with EDA vendor APIs/SDKs to automate resource management and job orchestration.
• Collaborate with the in-house scheduler team to enhance scheduling intelligence and resource allocation.
• Build data pipelines and dashboards to visualize trends, detect inefficiencies, and guide tuning.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, workflow optimization, and vendor partnerships.
• Validate and deploy performance enhancements with EDA tool vendors in production workloads.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience to perform the role.

• Minimum 5 years' experience in hardware emulation and FPGA environments.
• Proven ability to benchmark, profile, and interpret emulation performance data.
• Experience integrating vendor APIs or SDKs into automation or monitoring solutions.
• Familiarity with scheduler design and scheduler integration for large workloads.
• Proficiency in Linux and scripting for automation and analysis (Python, Bash).
• Data-driven approach to performance validation and strong analytical problem solving.
• Familiarity with metrics/monitoring frameworks such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience building workflow orchestration or monitoring tools for large-scale verification.
• Exposure to cloud-hosted emulation or elastic compute models.
• Knowledge of EDA tool internals and licensing mechanisms; experience collaborating with EDA vendors.

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.