ARM Staff SoC Performance Modeling Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

122369779

As a SoC performance modeling engineer you will be responsible for ensuring the success of these designs by running system level performance analysis much ahead of the RTL and providing feedback to System Architects and IP design leads.

• Engaging with System architects on future systems within Arm.
• Creating full system simulation models using a range of IP performance models from across the company.
• Working with architects and design teams to characterize the system and finding opportunities to optimize configuration.
• Developing exploration models for system components like Coherent and Non-Coherent interconnects, Last Level Caches (LLC/SLC), Multifaceted memory controller (DDR5, LPDDR5/6, HBM etc.)
• Defining and leading investigations that are aimed at benchmarking the efficiency of new IP features in a full system context.
• Building infrastructure to enable better inspection and root-cause analysis of such systems.
• Helping to define future direction of system performance modeling across Arm.

• Experience in developing and using cycle approximate/accurate performance models.
• Experience in generating pre-silicon/pre-RTL performance projections and performance bottleneck debug and analysis.
• Strong C/C++ programming and debugging skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work in teams and to collaborate with colleagues in other groups and sites.
• Proactive and motivated.

• Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with a strong computer architecture, microarchitecture, performance experience.
• Knowledge of on-chip bus protocols such as AMBA, coherency flows, interconnects, memory subsystems
• Knowledge of CPU microarchitecture.
• Experience in evaluating/benchmarking system level performance using performance monitors.
• Exposure to performance analysis and tuning in pre- and post-silicon environments.