Arm
Senior FPGA & Emulation Performance Engineer
$162K–$218K
Austin, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 19, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 5 years in hardware emulation and FPGA environments.
About the job
Improves the performance, utilization, availability, and throughput of Arm’s emulation and FPGA infrastructure through benchmarking, scheduling optimization, automation, and monitoring.
What you'll do
- Benchmark emulation and FPGA workloads and use performance data to drive improvements.
- Optimize scheduling, queuing, recovery, and resource management to improve availability and job throughput.
- Build automation, data pipelines, and dashboards, and collaborate with scheduler teams and EDA vendors on performance enhancements.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years of experience in hardware emulation and FPGA environments.
- Experience benchmarking and profiling emulation workloads and understanding emulation and FPGA prototyping workflows.
- Experience integrating vendor APIs or SDKs into automation or monitoring solutions; familiarity with scheduler design and integration.
- Linux proficiency and scripting with Python or Bash; familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar metrics frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience building workflow orchestration or monitoring tools for large-scale verification environments; exposure to cloud-hosted emulation or elastic compute.
- Knowledge of EDA tool internals and licensing, or experience with EDA vendors on optimization or benchmarking.
Pay
$161,500-$218,500 per year (base salary)
Tools
FPGA, Linux, Python, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, Cadence, Synopsys
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