Verification Engineer

Job Overview

As part of Arm’s continued growth, the CPU team is looking to hire dedicated engineers to join our Cambridge team. You will be working on next CPU products in close collaboration with the Cambridge team. We are looking for all experience levels to be part of this innovative CPU team and look forward to speaking to you about the opportunities available!

Arm’s verification engineers continuously push the boundaries of what is possible with simulation, formal, and emulation tools to produce industry-leading CPU IP. Our group has produced some of the company’s most successful products with processors designed by this group being shipped in billions of designs in use around the world today, from smartphones and tablets to AI applications, IoT, and automotive systems.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of a specific area of verification for a CPU, ranging from unit-level testbench development through to the overall verification strategy for the project.
• Responsibility for producing test plans and verification strategies.
• Planning, tracking, and coordinating the tasks of you or your team to meet high quality goals at the planned time.
• Using a data-driven approach to ensure a high-quality product.
• Being part of verification improvement strategies across the CPU group and the wider Arm verification community.
• Evaluating and resolving causality of different issues throughout the verification process per project.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience in designing and implementing verification environments for complex RTL designs.
• Well-versed in the use of hardware verification e.g. SystemVerilog or Specman ‘e’.
• Understanding of end-to-end verification processes, from test plan creation through to verification closure.
• Ability to quickly understand and apply complex specification detail.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture, with an emphasis on pipelining, exception handling, and memory systems.

'Nice to have' Skills and Experience:

• Verification methodologies such as UVM.
• Practical experience of working on microprocessor designs.
• In-depth understanding of memory protection, memory translation, vector processing in CPUs, exception and interrupt handling.
• Understanding of constrained random stimulus, the goals and general usefulness of different types of coverage in hardware, as well as checking methodologies and behavioral functional models.
• Knowledge of assembly (preferably Arm), C/C++, and/or Python.
• In-depth technical reviewing of others’ work.

In Return:

You will get to utilize your engineering skills to build support for technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. You’ll share ideas with and learn new skills from some of the best engineers in the world!

Accommodations at Arm:

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Hybrid Working at Arm:

Arm’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 Arm:

Arm 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 disability, or status as a protected veteran.