Principal GPU Compute Performance Engineer

Job Description

The Automotive Line of Business, a key market segment for Arm, has overall responsibility for defining and driving Arms automotive strategy, products, market initiatives, ecosystem, developer community and customer / commercial engagements. The automotivemarketplaces unique demands on compute requirements. Frequently, there is the need to off load various specific workloads onto an accelerator compute platform.Youll join a multidimensional, collaborative and highly motivated systems development and integration team working with current and next generation Arm technology! We support the automotive business by engaging with multi-functional teams to identify technicalproblems, define a solution and implement across the organisation!Responsibilities:

• Test and analyse the functionality and performance of workloads on Arm Mali GPUs using numerous platforms.
• Application development and porting using machine learning frameworks targeting a GPU as the machine learning accelerator.
• Application and SW stack performance analysis and optimisation investigations of various applications, benchmarks. Analysing the results and identifying optimisation opportunities in the driver, compiler, and hardware architecture.
• New benchmarks and technologies will be added and evaluated for competitive performance comparisons.
• Work with Arm partners in helping port, analyse and ultimately improve on automotive applications.

What will I be accountable for

• Participating in all phases of software developmentincluding design, implementation, testing, code review and documentation.
• Writing Python/Bash scripts and C/C++ code to implement benchmarking, automation, analysis, and visualisation tools.
• Maintaining the existing codebase: fixing bugs and other quality assurance activities.
• Engaging with the rest of the team for investigation, estimation, and planning purposes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of GPU architecture and CUDA programming
• Knowledge in parallel or multi-threaded (pthreads) and distributed programming.
• Experience with Linux network programming (TCP/IP service).
• Capable of handling multiple activities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in C and C++ programming and scripting languages with Python and Bash.
• A confirmed understanding of embedded hardware architectures and software engineering development practices.
• Proficiency in problem solving and debugging with a practical, organised and analytical approach to work.
• Good interpersonal team-working skills, self-motivated and results focused. Good written and spoken English

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:Dont worry if you dont have these skills, youll be learning many of these as part of your activities, but it would be useful to have some already:

• Hands-on experience with design and implementation of 3D graphics applications using rendering APIs, like DirectX, OpenGL, and Vulkan
• Proficient with writing vertex, fragment, and compute shaders using shading languages such as Cg, HLSL, GLSL, and SPIR-V
• Exceptional ability to write efficient, clean, maintainable and portable code
• Experience with GPU optimisation for increased frame-rate and reduced latency a plus
• Experience in Graphics performance, power analysis and machine learning.
• Competent with OpenGL ES, OpenGL SC APIs, OpenCL, CUDA, or Vulkan.
• Knowledge of software optimisation, profiling and instrumentation techniques.
• Experience developing software for Linux or Android based systems.
• Experience with data analysis, statistics, Git and bug tracking tools.
• Knowledge of the internal operation of compilers (particularly LLVM), although this is not a compiler role.
• Ability to craft, design and test specifications and in the creation and maintenance of test suites
• Automation skills, with exposure to Docker and Agile development processes.
• Familiar with driver or HAL development.
• Working exposure to software development for a commercial organisation
• Experience in engaging with automotive OEMs, Tier 1s, software vendors, and IC design companies.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
• Experience of customer interaction of a technical nature

In Return:On top of the already compelling Life at arm, we are famous for our team culture - regular career conversations, remarkable diversity, equity and inclusion approach and continuous improvement mentality.We offer a competitive reward package including annual bonus, RSUs and healthcare support. As well as other benefits such as an on-site gym and social events that are organised within the company!We are offering a hybrid approach to home and office working to provide an adaptable experience for all employees. We expect some working time to be spent in office, to promote a strong collaborative environment with good team integration but are accommodatingto different home working requirements.#LI-JW1