Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Performance

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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer Performance

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer Performance

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Austin TX USA
Hybrid
208K-281K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Internet of Things • Semiconductor
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The Role
This role focuses on enhancing developer experience through improved tools and solutions collaborating with developers and engineering teams and managing product roadmaps for performance tooling.
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Job Overview:
This is a technical customer-facing role for someone who enjoys working directly with customers understanding their goals demonstrating product capabilities and helping ensure successful adoption in real-world environments. You will be joining a team focused on helping customers successfully observe and accelerate workloads running on Arm platforms.
This role would suit someone with experience as a Solutions Architect Forward Deployed Engineer Customer Engineer or technically strong software engineer passionate about customer success. You will act as a bridge between customer needs product capability and engineering execution.
We are looking for someone with strong technical capability practical experience running workloads in production environments and the ability to reason clearly about systems performance and customer requirements. Depth of experience is valuable but we care most about sharp thinking ownership adaptability and an appetite to learn quickly.
This role is based in Austin TX.
Responsibilities:
  • Working closely with customers to understand their technical requirements workloads deployment environments and success criteria
  • Acting as a technical advisor to customers helping them understand how to get the best value from the product
  • Delivering technical demos proof-of-concepts and product evaluations for prospective and existing customers
  • Helping customers observe and accelerate their workloads on Arm-based systems
  • Evangelizing the product with customer engineering teams architecture teams and technical decision makers
  • Translating customer feedback and requirements into clear input for product and engineering teams
  • Investigating technical issues in customer environments identifying root causes and proposing practical solutions
  • Working with engineering teams to improve product usability performance documentation and customer readiness
  • Creating technical collateral examples guides and demos to support customer adoption
  • Developing a strong understanding of customer workloads system behaviour and performance characteristics
  • Taking ownership of customer technical outcomes to ensure successful product adoption in key accounts

Required Skills and Experience :
  • Experience running deploying or supporting workloads on cloud-based systems
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes containers virtual machines networking and storage concepts
  • Strong technical problem-solving skills with the ability to reason from first principles and learn new systems quickly
  • Ability to work directly with customers in a technical capacity including discovery demos troubleshooting and solution design
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous customer environments where requirements may be incomplete or evolving
  • Ability to translate customer needs into practical technical recommendations
  • Strong ownership mindset and desire to drive customer success
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with engineering product and commercial teams
  • Motivation adaptability and a willingness to take on new technical challenges
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly
  • Development experience in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python Go Java C++ Rust or similar
  • Practical experience using Linux command-line tools and debugging technical issues in complex systems

"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :
  • Previous experience as a Solutions Architect Forward Deployed Engineer Sales Engineer Customer Engineer or similar customer-facing technical role
  • Experience with systems performance analysis benchmarking profiling or optimisation
  • Understanding of distributed systems cloud infrastructure networking storage or compute performance tradeoffs
  • Experience building demos proof-of-concepts reference implementations or customer-facing technical assets
  • Experience working with enterprise customers or strategic accounts
  • Experience contributing to software development projects or working closely with engineering teams
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code observability tools or DevOps workflows
  • Experience with AI ML data processing high-performance computing or other demanding cloud workloads
  • Experience working across different teams sites or time zones

Additional Information
Please note that no relocation package is available for this role.
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Salary Range:
$207800-$281200 per year
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.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process please email [email protected] . To note by sending us the requested information you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list examples of support include breaks between interviews having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
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.

Skills Required

  • 10+ years in software engineering performance engineering developer tools cloud infrastructure or related domains
  • 5+ years focused on product management within AI/ML semiconductors or systems software
  • Strong communication and leadership skills
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