Cpu Performance Analysis and Modelling Intern

Job ID 2025-15789

Date posted Oct. 10, 2025

Location Sophia Antipolis, France

Category Hardware Engineering

Are you creative, innovative and enthusiastic about new technologies? Do you enjoy programming and problem solving? Those with a passion for a career in microarchitecture and processor design are invited to join our team in Sophia Antipolis.

Arm’s Sophia Antipolis design centre is located in one of the most appealing parts of France, the French Riviera, at the heart of Europe’s largest and most dynamic technology park. Surrounded by mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, this outstanding design centre has delivered leading products from Arm’s Cortex (TM) CPU family. These CPUs power some of the world’s best-selling smartphones, tablets and gaming systems, using technology that has taken user experience and performance to another level.

Job Overview:
This internship position is available in the CPU Performance Analysis and Micro-architecture Modelling team, an international team comprised of an enthusiastic mix of experts and talented graduates. At the crossroads of software and hardware, our activities cover all performance-related topics for the CPUs developed in the centre, from early microarchitectural investigations, to performance verification of the final products.

The internship topics are updated regularly, and can vary from:

- CPU micro-architectural studies (cache replacement policies, data prefetchers, branch prediction)
- development of specific features or optimizations in the micro-architectural model (e.g. perfect micro-architectural modes to enable limit studies)
- improvements to our different performance analysis techniques or performance verification flow

What could you be doing as a Microarchitecture and Performance Analysis Intern?

The aim of our internships is to develop your potential and expand the opportunities on offer to you, providing an incredible variety of potential career paths. We will support you with continuous learning and development, whilst encouraging you to achieve professional chartered status.

We ensure that every intern learns about different aspects of our work and expands their knowledge, works in a team on real projects from day one, with guidance from expert engineers, and also receives dedicated time for personal development.

We are looking for individuals who:

- Have knowledge of CPU microarchitecture
- Have experience of UNIX and shell programming
- Are fluent in written and oral English
- Programming skills (C language and/or Python)
- Some expertise in Data Science

Additional Information:
Arm Internships require you to be enrolled in a higher education degree.

French Law requires students to complete an internship agreement (Convention de Stage). This is a tripartite agreement signed by the student, their home university and host organization, that facilitates an internship in France. It is the contract defining all the essential points of the internship: duration, missions, remuneration and benefits, insurance in the event of an accident, etc.

It is preferable that Arm's own template of the agreement is used. Successful applicants will be required to provide contact details of the appropriate university representatives in order to have the agreement signed.

In Return:
In addition to a competitive salary and

rewards

package, our on-the-job learning and mentoring/buddy schemes provide unparalleled learning and networking opportunities from the best in the industry.

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Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.