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Job Overview:
We are looking for an experienced board designer to join Arm’s Hardware Platform team. The team is based in Cambridge, UK, working at the forefront of embedded design focusing on prototyping Arm’s latest IP products.
We develop physical hardware development platforms, based around Arm’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.
The platforms are used for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.
Responsibilities:
The specification, development and commissioning of new hardware platforms. Driving the PCB development, including schematics, PCB layout and commissioning. This will also include collaborating with our CEM, proactively providing manufacturing support. Working closely with the program team, competency in planning and scheduling tasks, to meet project timescales, is also required.
Required Skills and Experience:
High speed design experience, able to demonstrate knowledge of PCB stack-ups and topologies
Detailed knowledge of embedded system board design, designing with complex LSI devices such as FPGAs, demonstrating an understanding of various high speed IO interface standards such as PCIe and DDR
A broad knowledge of EDA tools for schematic entry PCB layout and signal integrity analysis
Embedded software knowledge to test and debug the design with a creative and structured approach to problem-solving.
Excellent communications & interpersonal skills with a desire for learning and self-improvement
Excellent written and spoken English; ability to write coherent documentation
“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :
The following skills are not essential for this role, but experience in any of the following areas would enhance the application:
Experience in using Cadence CIS, Mentor PADs Layout and Hyperlynx tools
RTL skills in Verilog or VHDL
Use of a UNIX environment and shell programming/scripting in e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc
Programming languages such as: assembly language (ideally Arm assembler), higher-level (e.g. C), object orientated (e.g. C++)
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