ARM Software Performance Architect 

France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Valbonne 

381022134

Responsibilities:

• Analyse benchmarks and workloads to identify software and hardware optimization opportunities, analyse CPU performance and understand limitations we need to break through.
• Collaborate with various software teams, compiler, OS, applications to implement improvements.
• Collaborate with CPU design teams to identify bottlenecks.
• Write/Extract performance tests out of existing SW applications and run it on C/C++ models, emulators or real devices (Laptops, Smartphones, Servers…) on various operating systems.
• Work alongside with modelling engineers, CPU design teams and Arm Architecture group.
• Drive technical activities.
• Collaborate with Business teams and partners to present technical results.

Required Skills and Experience :

• You graduated from a university or Engineering School, in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic / Electrical Engineering, or other related science
• You have bare minimum of several years of either software, hardware, or mathematic experience.
• You have some a proven experience in SW programming alongside with technical management
• You have a passion to innovate, think different, explore new avenues.
• You can work efficiently alone as well as in a team environment.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Having strong SW development experience in one or several domains like HPC, machine learning, distributed applications, web technologies, mobile applications, databases, multi-media, …
• Having strong development skills in one or more high-level programming languages (C, C++, Java, Rust, …)
• Have SW performance analysis experience in platforms like Android (big/LITTLE systems), Windows, Linux and operating System settings impact (power management, frequency governor…) , single-threaded vs multi-threaded…
• Having working experience in CPU performance analysis, methodology (PMU-based, TDA, …), tools (linux perf, Intel Vtune, android simpleperf/perfetto, …), aarch64 assembly language programming
• Having knowledge on CPU architecture and micro-architecture performance techniques (branch prediction, prefetchers, …)
• You are used to develop and adapt some experimental application code to test new architectures.
• You demonstrate passion, drive and diligence.
• You have good written and verbal communication skills