Arm
Principal System Performance Telemetry Architect
$250K–$338K
Austin, Texas +5 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
San Jose, California
San Diego, California
Waltham, Massachusetts
Raleigh, North Carolina
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- Relevant experience required; no number of years stated.
About the job
Architects system-level performance telemetry and profiling capabilities across Arm platforms to support performance analysis, optimization, silicon debug, and hardware-software observability.
What you'll do
- Define telemetry architecture and specifications spanning counters, events, metrics, traces, and data collection across SoC components.
- Develop performance analysis methodologies and translate analysis and debug needs into hardware telemetry requirements.
- Guide software, firmware, and tooling teams, and support silicon bring-up, validation, and debug.
What they ask for
- Relevant experience in system architecture, performance engineering, performance analysis, profiling, or performance modeling for complex compute platforms.
- Strong understanding of heterogeneous SoC architectures and system performance analysis methodologies.
- Experience with hardware performance counters, events, traces, profiling infrastructure, or system-level observability.
- Hands-on experience with profiling tools such as NVIDIA Nsight, Intel VTune, Linux perf, Arm Streamline, Arm Performance Studio, or equivalent tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with silicon bring-up, performance validation, debug, or hardware-software performance correlation.
- Experience with cloud-scale performance observability, capacity planning, workload placement, or infrastructure optimization.
Pay
$249,900-$338,100 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
NVIDIA Nsight, Intel VTune, Linux perf, Arm Streamline, Arm Performance Studio
AI focus
Architects performance telemetry and profiling for AI infrastructure, edge platforms, and physical AI systems.
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