CareerPlanGet AI match score →

Senior CPU Performance Engineer

Cambridge, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-16 → 2026-07-22

Core

Analyze CPU performance on real devices to identify bottlenecks and guide CPU design decisions.

Role type

Senior IC CPU performance engineer (device-level analysis)

Builds

Actionable insights for CPU design teams based on real-world system behavior

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU microarchitecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

CPU microarchitecture fundamentals, performance analysis, PMU-based profiling, scripting (Python/C/C++)

Preferred skills

Low-level programming (C/Assembly), RTL/hardware design concepts, FPGA/emulation platforms, Arm architecture

Technologies

PMU counters, profiling tools, FPGA, emulation platforms

Responsibilities

Analyze performance on real devices using real-world workloads, Identify CPU-related factors in system-level performance issues, Operate in low-observability environments, Use PMU counters to understand CPU behavior, Contribute to identifying performance bottlenecks, Assist with experiments on emulation or FPGA platforms

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

Sourced via arm · Listed on CareerPlan, which tracks 70,000+ jobs from 20+ sources.
Apply on Arm ↗