Senior FPGA & Emulation Performance Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States

Originally posted 19 May 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As a member of Arm's Productivity Engineering Group, you will improve the performance, utilization, and availability of Arm's global hardware acceleration infrastructure. You will work across emulation, FPGA, scheduling, operations, and EDA vendor integrations to improve platform throughput and engineering productivity.

What you'll do

- Benchmark emulation and FPGA workloads to quantify performance and utilization baselines and track improvements over time. - Improve system availability and job throughput by optimizing scheduling, queuing, and recovery mechanisms. - Integrate with EDA vendor APIs to automate resource management, supervise usage, and streamline job orchestration. - Collaborate with the in-house scheduler team to enhance scheduling intelligence and resource allocation for emulation and FPGA workloads. - Develop data pipelines and performance dashboards using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to visualize trends, detect inefficiencies, and guide tuning. - Partner with EDA tool vendors, including Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens, to validate and deploy performance enhancements in production workloads.

What you'll need

- Minimum 5 years of experience in hardware emulation and FPGA environments. - Proven ability to benchmark and profile emulation workloads, interpret performance data, and implement targeted improvements. - Understanding of emulation and FPGA prototyping workflows, including model build, compile, partitioning, mapping, execution, debug, and regression usage patterns. - Experience integrating vendor APIs or SDKs into custom automation or monitoring solutions. - Familiarity with scheduler design and integration. - Proficiency in Linux-based environments and scripting with Python and Bash for automation and analysis. - Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar metrics frameworks for system visibility.

Nice to have

- Experience building workflow orchestration or monitoring tools for large-scale verification environments. - Exposure to cloud-hosted emulation or elastic compute models. - Knowledge of EDA tool internals and licensing mechanisms. - Experience collaborating with EDA vendors on joint optimization or benchmarking initiatives.

Skills: FPGA, emulation, benchmarking, EDA vendor APIs, workflow optimization