Staff System Performance Engineer

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Date posted Nov. 13, 2025

Location Sophia Antipolis, France

Category Software Engineering

Would you love to investigate performance issues and suggest product improvements on the different parts of a mobile System-on-Chip? Would you like to analyse the performance of Arm's future IPs when they are working together?

Arm's Solutions Performance Analysis team is a team of highly motivated engineers ensuring that we maintain our leadership in mobile computing by helping our partners build outstanding products. Using detailed competitive analysis, sophisticated workload characterisation, emulation, simulation, and advanced software modeling, we are regularly influencing Arm's engineering teams and its partners.

Arm's Sophia Antipolis design centre is located in one of the most beautiful parts of France, at the heart of Europe's largest and most dynamic technology park. Surrounded by mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, this exceptional design centre has a track record of delivering products and developing engineering talent.

Job Overview:

You will join the Solutions Performance Analysis team within Central Technology as an experienced System Performance Analysis Engineer. You will run experiments on a pre-Silicon SoC environments analysing the performance of the different Arm components (such as CPU, GPU, DPU, Video, ISP, Interconnect, etc) using use-cases close to the ones run on mobile products. You will help bring up some of these use cases and understand their behaviour on future platforms. You will be finding the different potential bottlenecks and help provide solutions.

Given the impact and reach of this field, you will be encouraged to share this knowledge with other specialists across the company. This is centred around promoting and demonstrating the Arm core beliefs and behaviours.

Responsibilities:

• Characterise real world use cases and build sophisticated workloads that will be used to understand system performance.
• Engage with architects on future systems within Arm.
• Run system performance characterization and optimization studies.
• Lead exploration studies aimed at determining the efficiency of proposed IP features in a system context.
• Be a trusted source of analytics and data through good engineering practice and methodologies
• Devise and investigate new ideas for workload analysis and development of new tools and flows.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Detailed understanding of computer architecture and microarchitecture concepts such as Cache hierarchy, SMT, Multi-core architecture etc.
• Good understanding of key performance concepts and metrics. ie. CPU/System performance.
• Familiarity with Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Experience on scripting languages, Assembly language, ideally in Arm assembly, and programming languages such as C or C++
• Self motivated to experiment and root-cause performance issues.

"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :

• Experience with Unix and source control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion).
• Familiarity with ARM architectures.
• Experience with compilers and/or device drivers.
• Familiarity with performance analysis methodologies in various environments such as RTL emulation/simulation, FPGA, Test-chip/Development kits etc.
• Experience with power management and optimisations
• If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you
• At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our open culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary.

In Return:

In Return:

You will develop the roadmap for Arm's core interconnect and control subsystems, ensuring they are strategically aligned and technically validated across markets. While the initial focus is infrastructure, you will work across line of business and customers to ensure these foundational technologies are robust, driven, and reusable across Arm's diverse product portfolio. Your ownership of requirement specs and roadmap rigor will ensure subsystem coherence across product generations — enabling Arm to scale from IP to complete system solutions.

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Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

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.