Performance Architecture & PnP Modeling Engineer

ARM • San Jose, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking highly skilled and motivated System-on-Chip (SoC) Performance and Power modeling (PnP) Architects to join our diverse team at Arm! Our team focuses on PnP Analysis of Arm SoCs/SoPs (System-on-Package), System level infrastructure (SoC/SoP/Rackscale/Podscale) build together in pre- and post- silicon environments. Working closely with design teams and customers, we develop best-in-class silicon platforms across markets such as servers, accelerators, client, infrastructure, IoT, and automotive.

Requirements

• Experience in SoC Performance Modeling and analysis in the semiconductor industry.
• A background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with an expertise in computer architecture, and microarchitecture.
• Understanding of general-purpose CPU/GPU microarchitecture, including knowledge of areas such as processor pipelines, caches, and memory hierarchy.
• Proficient in C/C++ for programming for large-scale software development, familiarity with SystemC TLM, and Python scripting language skills.
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills with ability to convey effectively complicated solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of interconnect micro-architecture design, PCIe/CXL and CHI protocols.
• Understanding of workloads used for performance optimization under system constraints (TDP, Limits).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and requirements
• Experience with Unix, scripting, and source control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion).

Responsibilities

• Efficiently drive and resolve architectural investigations and PnP tradeoff studies across various SoC (CPU, GPU, NPU, Media, IO, interconnects, memory controllers) and Platform components.
• Perform detailed workload characterization to identify performance bottlenecks and propose architectural solutions.
• Collaborate, coordinate, and drive consensus across architects, and IP teams.
• Conduct workload compaction to facilitate effective modeling.
• Create profiling and visualization frameworks to analyze with right level of abstraction.
• Contribute to automation for streamlining production processes
• Stay up-to-date on latest advancements in application development, workload characterization, and performance/power/thermal analysis
• Drive PnP analysis as an experienced SoC Performance and Power modeling Architect at Arm, focusing on diverse silicon platforms

Benefits

• We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm.
• Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees