Summary
The foundation of a global ecosystem of technology innovators, Arm empowers the world’s most successful business and consumer brands. Every day our thousands of partners embed more than 45 million Arm-based chips in products that connect people, enhance the human experience, and make anything possible. Extensible, scalable, and ever evolving, it is a foundation that confirms how we lead by design — to serve today, anticipate tomorrow.
The Arm Central Engineering – Systems group in Cambridge is responsible for specifying, developing and validating Arm CoreLink and CoreSight IP products that support inter-process communication, trace, and debug solutions that scale from real-time embedded to hyperscale cloud. We are looking for design and verification engineers to join our team and play an integral role in developing technology that makes people's lives better.
This role will be based at Arm’s corporate headquarters in the historic city of Cambridge, home to one of the world’s most renowned and oldest Universities. The city is a key driver of global innovation, and regularly features as one of the most desirable places to live in the UK. As Arm’s largest engineering centre, the Cambridge site is fortunate enough to be involved in development across all areas of Arm’s ever-growing product portfolio. As a Cambridge-based Arm employee, you will be surrounded by world-leading experts, and will have the opportunity to work with some of the very best engineers in the industry. If the challenge of working on our cutting-edge technology excites you, and you can meet the requirements of the job description below, we look forward to receiving your application!
Job Purpose
For this role we are looking for engineers who are capable of contributing to the design or verification of a unit within a project through all phases of the design and verification flow. This includes:
- Creating and reviewing design and verification documentation
- Designing, implementing and verifying high performance, low power IP
- Designing and implementing verification IP and testbenches
- Testing and debugging Verilog RTL
- Planning and tracking tasks to meet the targets at the planned time
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience of block level RTL design and verification for non-trivial FPGA/ASIC developments
- Competency in hardware design and verification languages, preferably Verilog and System Verilog / UVM
- Experience of development of coverage-driven constrained random test environments
- Exposure to all stages of the design cycle: initial concept, specification, implementation and testing, documentation and support
- Experience producing specifications and documentation describing complex designs
- Understanding of the fundamentals of system on a chip designs
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Practical experience of working on microprocessor system interconnect and/or peripheral designs
- Ability to make trade-offs between power, performance and area appropriately to meet the requirements of the product
- Experience of low power RTL design
- Proficiency in scripting languages, e.g. Perl/TCL/Python
- Competency in C/C++
- Knowledge of formal verification techniques and tools
At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our rare culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary:
We not I
- Take daily responsibility to make the Global Arm community thrive.
- No individual owns the right answer. Brilliance is collective.
- Information is crucial, share it.
- Realise that we win when we collaborate — and that everyone misses out when we don’t.
Passion for progress
- Our differences are our strength. Widen and mix up your network of connections.
- Difficult things can take unexpected directions. Stick with it.
- Make feedback positive and expansive, not negative and narrow.
- The essence of progress is that it can’t stop. Grow with it and own your own progress.
Be your brilliant self
- Be quirky not egocentric.
- Recognise the power in saying ‘I don’t know’.
- Make trust our default position.
- Hold strong opinions lightly.
Arm has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, innovative and highly talented professionals. By enabling a vibrant, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where all our people can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their unique contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.
About Arm
Arm is at the heart of the world's most advanced digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new markets and transformation of industries and society. We design scalable, energy efficient-processors and related technologies to deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure and the Internet of Things.
Our innovative technology is licensed by Arm Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies.
