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Senior Principal Engineer, Arm On Arm

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5 months ago
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Job Overview:

The Arm on Arm team drives the move to Arm-based platforms for all the compute used at Arm in the delivery of our business, whether that is in our engineering compute clusters, enterprise workflows, or on colleagues laptops. We have the remit to do whatever is needed to make that migration happen, whether that's working with our partners in the supply chain across software vendors, hardware companies and cloud operators; ensuring our internal IT systems provide access to Arm-based compute, or helping individual teams within the company to migrate their specific use case to Arm. We also collaborate with the Lines of Business to ensure that what we have done is used publicly in support of our ecosystem partners.

We are looking for a team member who is keen to get stuck in at all levels of the stack, from racking and building prototype Arm servers through helping partners to optimise their code for the latest microarchitecture and bug finding in the Linux kernel to promoting the use of AArch64 across Engineering.

Responsibilities:

Be the first point of contact for technical queries coming from partners, especially EDA software vendors, where they have questions relating to porting code or services to Arm. They will be expected to see these to resolution, potentially over an extended period.

Diagnose problems, identifying compatibility or performance issues and resolving them as appropriate, recent examples below:

Identifying bugs in the network protocol of a storage filer!

Investigating unexpected performance regressions and developing solutions.

Assessing the consistency of floating point maths results on Arm and across other architectures.

Required Skills and Experience:

Demonstrated problem solving ability and commitment to achieving a solution.

Wide (system to application level) programming expertise in a number of programming languages (particularly C).

Software optimisation techniques.

Experience of benchmarking to generate robust measurements of performance.

IT Infrastructure awareness: TCP/IP, DHCP & DNS, datacentre configuration.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

Understanding of EDA landscape and ideally experience in using tools.

Knowledge of Neoverse micro-architectures

Linux Kernel internals.

IT Service operations

In Return:

At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our creative culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to surpass ordinary and shape extraordinary.

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Accommodations at Arm

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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

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