Senior CPU Performance Analysis Engineer

Hardware Engineering      ·      Sophia Antipolis      ·     Full time

Hardware at Arm

You know us. With 125 Arm-powered products shipped every second, we’ll be in a over a trillion smart devices by 2035. Your smartphone, award-winning VR gaming, the world’s fastest supercomputer – our engineers are designing the advanced core processors leading the race towards a connected, autonomous, hyper-performance future.

So, we promise you endless opportunities to experiment and go even further in hardware. From advanced core implementation to full custom physical IPs, here you’ll have our backing to push limits in vital areas such as memory, IO and logic.

Role Overview

You have a keen interest in CPU micro-architecture and hardware design ? Take up the challenge to rise tomorrow’s processors performance! We are looking for an enthusiastic engineer to join Arm, and help shape the future of technology and collaborating in the development of next-generation CPU that fuel billions of devices world-wide.

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 delivered leading products from Arm’s Cortex (TM) processor family.

As Senior CPU Performance Analysis Engineer, you will directly contribute to the definition and bring-up of Arm’s next-gen processor micro-architecture.

Working alongside our world leading hardware and software experts, your main role will consist in ensuring that the CPU under development reach their performance targets. Using a wide variety of benchmarks, you will be in charge of analyzing the results, isolating and analyzing the potential outliers.

Apply now and join our team!

Key responsibilities

• Run a diverse set of benchmarks on the CPUs under development and assess their level of performance.
• Analyze performance outliers and identify the possible areas of improvements.
• Optimize the efficiency of the CPU performance analysis and verification flow

Job Requirements

Essential skills and experience

• Solid foundation in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Engineering
• Good English interpersonal skills
• Accomplished working experience in the semiconductor industry

Desirable skills and experience:

Ideal candidates would benefit from additional skills and experience in the following areas:

• Familiarity with CPU micro-architectural concepts
• Hardware design (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog)
• CPU or System performance modelling
• Pre-silicon performance analysis (simulation, hardware emulation, FPGA)
• Knowledge of the Arm architecture
• Habits of Linux environment
• Programming skills (Python, C, Assembly)

Why you will love this job?

You will work directly with engineers across the company to build next-generation CPUs. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for our customers. You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work.

We have a friendly and high-performance working environment, where Arm offers a competitive benefits package in France including: private medical insurance (employee and family), 25 days annual leave, 20-day sabbatical every four years, supplementary pension and reduction in working hours (11 days).

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 any characteristic.

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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 any characteristic.

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