Staff Power Analysis Software Engineer

Arm Holdings

San Diego, CA

Full Time

Senior

241k-326k

about 2 months ago

Job Description

About the Role

Are you passionate about shaping the future of chip design? In the Solutions Engineering group at Arm, we offer the outstanding opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer to join our successful team in a dynamic and diverse role! Arm is establishing teams to develop new and best-in-class silicon platforms, addressing markets such as premium mobile, compute, IoT, AI/ML server, and automotive. Arm's ambition is to demonstrate efficient performance by architecting, implementing, and fabricating pioneering silicon using the latest SoC process nodes and packaging technologies. This is an exciting and unique initiative, where we are driving how the next generation of leading compute devices are built across the industry. Join Arm to be part of the solution.

Key Responsibilities

Join a highly focused team where we analyse and optimise the performance per watt of our next generation solutions using innovative technologies, methodologies and tools.
Develop software used in simulation, emulation, modelling and collaborate with cross-functional teams in design, verification, architecture, firmware, and pre and post silicon test.
Build and innovate new processes along the way.
Ensure customer requirements in PPA are measured, understood, and creatively exceeded.
Architect and implement the group's future direction for software development, maintenance, continuous integration, and test.
Develop innovative software applications for Arm SoCs to be used as workloads for power analysis in modelling, simulation, emulation, and silicon platforms.
Develop software microbenchmarks to model Linux/Android applications.
Collaborate closely with analysis and hardware engineers to investigate issues and understand the software and hardware behaviour to deliver power optimizations.

Requirements

Proven experience in software development for SoC platforms.
Background developing low-level embedded system firmware, boot loaders, RTOS, device drivers.
Familiarity working with operating system environments (Linux, Android).
Experience in architecting software stacks written preferably in C or C++.
Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing methodologies for reusable and maintainable code.
Theoretical and practical skills in structuring code for continuous integration, scalability, and testability.
MS degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience and an interest in new hardware.

Nice to Have

Understanding of SoC power management firmware.
Experience developing or analysing CPU, machine learning, media, and memory system benchmarks used for PPA analysis.
Background in running simulation/emulation tools (e.g., VCS, Questasim, Incisive, Veloce Strato, Palladium, Zebu).

Qualifications

MS degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience.

Benefits & Perks

Salary Range: $241,100-$326,100 per year.
Competitive and equitable rewards based on skills and experience.
Support for accommodations during the recruitment process.
Hybrid working environment supporting both face-to-face and flexible work arrangements.
Commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment.

Working at Arm Holdings

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