The Architect will improve Arm's hardware acceleration infrastructure through benchmarking scheduling optimization vendor API integration and performance visualization enhancing overall productivity.

We're seeking an Emulation and FPGA Efficiency Architect to improve the performance utilization and availability of Arm's global hardware acceleration infrastructure.
As part of Arm's Productivity Engineering Group you'll work across emulation FPGA scheduling operations and EDA vendor integrations to improve platform throughput and engineering productivity at scale.
Responsibilities:

• Benchmark emulation and FPGA workloads to quantify performance and utilization baselines and track improvements over time.
• Improve system availability and job throughput by optimizing scheduling queuing and recovery mechanisms.
• Integrate with EDA vendor APIs to automate resource management supervise usage and streamline job orchestration.
• Collaborate with Arm's in-house scheduler team to enhance scheduling intelligence and resource allocation for emulation and FPGA workloads.
• Develop data pipelines and performance dashboards to visualize trends detect inefficiencies and guide tuning efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and workflow optimization.
• Partner with EDA tool vendors (e.g. Cadence Synopsys Siemens) to validate and deploy performance enhancements in production workloads.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Strong experience in hardware emulation and FPGA environments
• Proven ability to benchmark and profile emulation workloads interpret performance data and drive targeted improvements.
• Understanding of emulation and FPGA prototyping workflows including model build compile partitioning mapping execution debug and regression usage patterns.
• Experience integrating vendor APIs or SDKs into custom automation or monitoring solutions.
• Familiarity with scheduler design and integration.
• Proficiency in Linux-based environments and scripting (Python Bash) for automation and analysis.
• Strong analytical mentality with a data-driven test-based approach to performance validation.
• Familiarity with Prometheus Grafana or similar metrics frameworks for system visibility.

"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :

• Experience building workflow orchestration or monitoring tools for large-scale verification environments.
• Exposure to cloud-hosted emulation or elastic compute models.
• Knowledge of EDA tool internals and licensing mechanisms.
• Experience collaborating with EDA vendors on joint optimization or benchmarking initiatives.

In Return:
Join a collaborative fast-moving team solving meaningful platform challenges. You'll have room to grow technically contribute directly to platform strategy and improve performance for thousands of engineers across Arm.
Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer collaborate and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work: https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset
Salary Range:
$161500-$218500 per year
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