Job Overview
As part of Arm’s continued growth, the CPU team are looking to hire dedicated engineers to join our Cambridge team. You will be working on next generation 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:
For this role, we are seeking experienced Verification Engineers of varying levels who can contribute to all phases of the verification flow. This includes:
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 languages 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, 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 behavioural functional models.
Knowledge of assembly language (preferably Arm), C/C++ and/or Python
In-depth technical reviewing of others’ work.
In Return
You will get to utilise 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!
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