ARM
Staff Software Performance Engineer – Team Lead Overview
| Company Name | ARM |
| Job Role | Staff Software Performance Engineer – Team Lead |
| Qualifications | Not Specified |
| Category | IT Jobs |
| Job Type | Full Time |
| Location | Multiple Locations |
Armâs Userspace Performance group is seeking an experienced software performance analysis engineer to take on a leadership role guiding a small team. The position focuses on improving the speed and efficiency of software running on Arm systems used around the world. The work involves solving difficult performance problems, understanding complex software stacks, and helping shape future improvements in both software and hardware.
What you will do
- Lead a compact team of engineers working on software performance and optimisation.
- Keep the teamâs work organised, well planned, and delivered on schedule.
- Manage direct reports and support their development as people and engineers.
- Encourage ongoing learning so the team continues to build capability and expertise.
- Investigate large and complex codebases to improve performance across different areas.
- Work with internal teams, external partners, and open-source communities to solve performance-related problems.
- Help define the strategy for identifying bottlenecks and deciding which issues should be examined next.
- Document analysis work clearly so knowledge is retained and shared across the team and beyond.
- Produce written reports and presentations for stakeholders and for future reference when similar issues arise.
- Work across a variety of environments, including the latest hardware, FPGA platforms, and software models of upcoming designs.
- Collaborate closely with tooling specialists to develop better ways of finding the root causes of performance issues.
- Engage with partner organisations to help them understand and address the performance challenges they are seeing.
- Contribute technical insight that can inform hardware design choices for future products.
About the team
You will join a group of software engineers who are motivated by the opportunity to influence the future of computing. The team enjoys tackling hard technical problems and focuses on improving the performance of software running on Arm platforms. Their work often involves very large software stacks with complicated interactions, and they regularly collaborate with other Arm teams to gain insight and develop better solutions.
The team also works with external companies to help them diagnose performance issues in their own workloads. In addition to solving immediate problems, the group aims to feed lessons back into future hardware design so that later generations of Arm technology perform even better.
Strong interpersonal skills are important in this role. Arm is looking for someone with excellent English communication skills who can write clear documentation, explain technical findings well, and mentor less experienced engineers.
What Arm is looking for
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- At least two years of management experience, along with a history of delivering high-quality work on time.
- The ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and effectively.
- Very strong C and C++ programming skills.
- Hands-on experience using profiling and tracing tools to find performance bottlenecks in large applications.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Confidence in writing technical documentation and supporting junior engineers.
Helpful additional experience
- A genuine interest in coaching others and helping the team grow.
- Understanding of how demanding software systems such as web servers, databases, mobile applications, and similar workloads behave from a performance standpoint.
- Knowledge of operating system fundamentals, including processes, threads, locks, and virtual memory, and how these affect application performance.
- Awareness of system architecture topics such as pipelines, caches, MMUs, interconnects, timers, and multithreading.
- Understanding of compiler optimisation techniques.
- Ability to interpret generated assembly code.
- Familiarity with open-source project workflows and contribution models.
- Knowledge of Arm architecture and the tools used with it.
Rewards and working environment
Arm highlights a strong team culture that includes regular Friday focus time, frequent career conversations, a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and a mindset of continuous improvement. The company also promotes a collaborative environment where people work together closely and support one anotherâs success.
The broader benefits offering includes support for health and wellbeing, help with work-life balance, financial rewards beyond salary, and development opportunities for both professional and personal growth.
Location and working style
The role is based in Cambridge or Manchester in the United Kingdom. Arm uses a hybrid working approach designed to support both high performance and personal wellbeing. Teams are given flexibility to agree the working pattern that best suits their needs, and the exact arrangement for this role will be confirmed during the application process.
Arm notes that the flexibility available may sometimes be limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and the company will work with the successful candidate to find the best possible arrangement.
Pay and additional information
The salary range for this position is £97,300 to £131,700 per year.
Arm states that no relocation package is available for this role. If Skilled Worker sponsorship is needed, Arm will pay the employer-side sponsorship costs, but the successful candidate must cover all personal immigration expenses, including the visa application fee and the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Accessibility and equal opportunities
Arm is committed to providing reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Candidates who need support can contact the company by email to request accommodations such as breaks between interviews, documents being read aloud, or help with office accessibility. Requests are handled confidentially and only shared as needed to provide the support requested.
Arm also states that it is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
How to apply
Applicants can submit their application through Armâs careers site for the Staff Software Performance Engineer – Team Lead position. The page also provides options to save the job, view the location, and access Armâs hiring process information.
Degree Requirement: Not Specified
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