Staff Emulation Engineer

Job Overview:

Arm’s Central Emulation team is very thrilled to work with Industry experienced Emulation experts in Cambridge who will join hands with other design and verification engineers spread globally to support outstanding Compute Subsystems and SoC projects.

Arm is hiring a team to develop outstanding silicon demonstrators based on Arm’s IP compute sub-system solutions targeting premium mobile, infrastructure, automotive and IoT markets. Using the latest technology nodes and new SoC 3D packaging developments, Arm’s ambition is to demonstrate industry best-in-class performance by architecting, designing, implementing, and fabricating powerful silicon test chips. This is a wonderful and outstanding initiative, where we are bringing in innovative talent and expertise from across the semiconductor industry to drive how the next generation of leading compute on Arm devices are built across the industry, opening up significant potential for the future.

Responsibilities:

Working with end users to understand system use cases to help guide validation on emulation

Getting yourself into an exciting emulation world of Hybrid, Virtual Solutions, Industry standard High/Low speed IO IPs based subsystems and integration into SoC

From early architecture and design inputs, to pre-silicon validation, to post-silicon readiness on emulation

Motivated individuals to drive Pre-Silicon story of Emulation across entire SoC teams

This team's early engagement with the design team ensures that quality and debuggability are built into the design

We support architecture, verification, System validation, Performance, Power, DFT teams with insights from performance & power characterization to guide future improvements

We write tests, build bare metal drivers for industry standard IO IPs, enable frameworks that will allow us to reuse and scale testing from pre-silicon platforms to many ASIC projects

Required Skills and Experience :

Candidate must have good experience in Pre-Silicon Validation, Emulation/FPGA based platforms

Experience in developing C/C++/SystemC tests in HDL-HVL Co-emulation platforms

Experience in IO bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, and/or PCIe

Experience in debugging tools for systems-on-chip (SoCs) - eg. JTAG, Trace32

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

Knowledge of ASIC design flow, ASIC prototyping flow, and similar

Knowledge of SystemC/C/C++ and UVM/SV verification languages

Experience in these domains: PCIe, Flash, Memory, CPU, GPU, DRAM

Experience with Emulation Tool Chains: Zebu, Veloce, Palladium

In Return:

In return you will be provided with the training and environment to succeed in this role. We are offering a hybrid approach to home and office working to provide an adaptable experience for all employees and to promote a strong collaborative environment.
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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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