Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly motivated and creative person to join our Cambridge-based toolchain performance team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with a keen interest in Dev Ops, software quality and performance testing, who wants to influence the future of Arm IP and the Arm eco-system.
Our team works on a diverse range of compilers and toolchains. From popular open-source projects like GNU and LLVM to closed sourced Arm compilers. Our goal is to tackle software performance challenges whenever they occur. We monitor the performance of vital toolchain and system components across a large number of hardware and software platforms. Your work will allow us to manage this unique complexity and provide the toolchain engineering teams with high-quality, reliable tracking of the state of the world of software on Arm IP.
This involves writing custom code to extend existing software or to connect systems together that are not usually deployed together. You will also manage a spread of hardware benchmarking platforms: mobile phones, developer boards, big servers as well as FPGAs and simulators for brand-new CPU designs.
Our existing infrastructure has been developed over time to meet our team's specific requirements, and we will be happy to ramp you up on its structure and components until you are comfortable owning its further evolution.
We are one of a number of compiler engineering teams in Arm, and we have plenty of passionate and friendly DevOps engineers specialising in toolchain testing who will be delighted to help you.
Location
This position is situated in our Cambridge head office which hosts diverse teams from across Arm including development tools, compilers, debuggers, technical communications, DevOps infrastructure provision and open-source software development.
Responsibilities:
As part of your role you will be supporting the software development teams CI/CD and automation:
- Maintaining a board farm of hardware devices used for validation and benchmarking.
- Crafting, maintaining and extending the automated testing and benchmarking infrastructure.
- Extending existing software to suit our needs or writing new glue between systems.
- Debugging problems across the stack: from data visualisation packages to Linux kernel crashes.
- Provisioning and handling various Cloud Infrastructure.
- Implementing custom solutions for reporting and aggregating results.
Required Skills and Experience :
- Good knowledge of software engineering and experience working with Cloud, CI and Testing.
- Familiarity with Linux development and administration environments through scripting and command-line.
- Knowledge of version control such as Git.
- Advanced scripting knowledge, for example Python, Bash.
- Experience leading or designing projects to improve efficiency and quality of sophisticated and widely used software.
“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :
Familiarity with any of the below is welcome but not required. You can expect us to help you grow and be mentored in one or more of these areas of your interest when you join us!
- Experience of build automation tooling like TeamCity or Jenkins.
- Understanding of the performance metrics of compilers, assemblers and linkers
- Experience configuring and installing hardware in a board or server farm, including maintenance through debugging problems and updating firmware, operating systems etc.
- Familiarity with web frontend frameworks such as Flask, CSS, HTML5, Bootstrap, ReactJS.
- Performance tracking and visualisation.
In Return:
On top of the already compelling Life at Arm, we are famous for our team culture - including Friday focus times, regular career conversations, remarkable diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and continuous improvement mentality.
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