Principal Verification Engineer

Job Overview:

Arm has been a pioneering provider for CPU, GPU & Media system IP over a long period of time and is considered a market leader. The site in Cambridge is as the heart of this development with a culture of teamwork and innovation. Arm is the best company in global technology and encourages the hardest working people from around the world!

The expectation of this role is that you will have knowledge of verifying and testing sophisticated IP such as CPU/GPU/DSP processors with memory controllers and interconnect fabrics. You will ensure all these products work effectively with each other and the software to enable our partners to produce outstanding systems. The kind of challenges that will need to be tackled include achieving performance goals within a defined power envelope, providing counter measures for security and functional safety problems.

Arm is building a team to develop best-in-class silicon demonstrators based on Arm’s IP compute sub-system solutions and addressing markets such as premium mobile, infrastructure and automotive. Using the latest nodes, e.g. 3nm today and utilising the latest SoC 2.5D and 3D packaging developments, Arm’s initial ambition is to demonstrate industry outstanding performance by architecting, designing, implementing, and fabricating groundbreaking silicon test chips.

Responsibilities:

• Writing test plans, defining test methodologies, completing functional verification to the required quality levels and schedules.
• Opportunities and space to develop and improve the verification methodologies used by the team.
• Working with project management on planning tasks, setting schedules, quality checkpoints, engineer will also be responsible for the progress of verification activities.
• Will collaborate with engineers from architecture, design, verification, implementation, modelling, performance analysis, silicon validation, FPGA and board development.
• Senior engineers are also encouraged to mentor junior members.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Worked on embedded C/C++ based SoC verification environments
• Knowledge of assembly language (preferably ARM), C/C++ and/or hardware verification languages e.g. (SystemVerilog), shell programming/scripting (e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc.)
• Experienced in one or more of various verification methodologies – UVM/OVM, formal, low power, emulation
• Exposure to all stages of verification: requirements collection, creation of verification methodology plans, testplans, testbench implementation, Testcases development, documentation and support
• Ability to work under time-scale pressure and meet ambitious targets without compromising on quality
• Understanding of the fundamentals of Arm system architectures
• Practical experience of working on Processor based system designs
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts with different audiences, including technical team members, partners and customers

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Understanding of machine learning, neural networks, automotive or computer vision applications.
• Power aware and Clock Domain Crossing implementation
• Experience in embedded operating systems, device drivers, microprocessor and embedded system hardware architectures.
• Knowledge of the ISO 26262 Functional Safety and ASIL standard for automotive

In Return:

Arm is committed to global talent acquisition, offering an attractive relocation package. With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, creative and highly talented engineers. By enabling a dynamic, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where all our people can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their unrivalled contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.

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