Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Performance

Job ID 2025-16337 Date posted 18/05/2026 Location Austin, Texas Category Product ManagementJob OverviewThis is a technical, customer-facing role for someone who enjoys working directly with customers, understanding their goals, demonstrating product capabilities, and helping ensure successful adoption in real-world environments. You will be joining a team focused on helping customers successfully observe and accelerate workloads running on Arm platforms.This role would suit someone with experience as a Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, or technically strong software engineer passionate about customer success. You will act as a bridge between customer needs, product capability and engineering execution.We are looking for someone with strong technical capability, practical experience running workloads in production environments, and the ability to reason clearly about systems, performance and customer requirements. Depth of experience is valuable, but we care most about sharp thinking, ownership, adaptability and an appetite to learn quickly.This role is based in Austin, TX.ResponsibilitiesWorking closely with customers to understand their technical requirements, workloads, deployment environments and success criteriaActing as a technical advisor to customers, helping them understand how to get the best value from the productDelivering technical demos, proof-of-concepts and product evaluations for prospective and existing customersHelping customers observe and accelerate their workloads on Arm-based systemsEvangelizing the product with customer engineering teams, architecture teams and technical decision makersTranslating customer feedback and requirements into clear input for product and engineering teamsInvestigating technical issues in customer environments, identifying root causes and proposing practical solutionsWorking with engineering teams to improve product usability, performance, documentation and customer readinessCreating technical collateral, examples, guides and demos to support customer adoptionDeveloping a strong understanding of customer workloads, system behaviour and performance characteristicsTaking ownership of customer technical outcomes to ensure successful product adoption in key accountsRequired Skills And ExperienceExperience running, deploying or supporting workloads on cloud-based systemsFamiliarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines, networking and storage conceptsStrong technical problem-solving skills, with the ability to reason from first principles and learn new systems quicklyAbility to work directly with customers in a technical capacity, including discovery, demos, troubleshooting and solution designComfortable operating in ambiguous customer environments where requirements may be incomplete or evolvingAbility to translate customer needs into practical technical recommendationsStrong ownership mindset and desire to drive customer successAbility to work independently while collaborating closely with engineering, product and commercial teamsMotivation, adaptability and a willingness to take on new technical challengesEffective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearlyDevelopment experience in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Go, Java, C++, Rust or similarPractical experience using Linux command-line tools and debugging technical issues in complex systems“Nice To Have” Skills And ExperiencePrevious experience as a Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Customer Engineer or similar customer-facing technical roleExperience with systems performance analysis, benchmarking, profiling or optimisationUnderstanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage or compute performance tradeoffsExperience building demos, proof-of-concepts, reference implementations or customer-facing technical assetsExperience working with enterprise customers or strategic accountsExperience contributing to software development projects or working closely with engineering teamsFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability tools or DevOps workflowsExperience with AI, ML, data processing, high-performance computing or other demanding cloud workloadsExperience working across different teams, sites or time zonesAdditional InformationPlease note that no relocation package is available for this role.Salary Range$207,800-$281,200 per yearWe value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.Accommodations at ArmAt Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please emailHybrid Working at ArmArm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.Equal Opportunities at ArmArm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.