Staff Embedded Software Engineer - CPU Stress Verification

Job ID 2024-11667

Date posted Oct. 24, 2024

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Software Engineering, Verification

Job Overview

ARM is well recognized as the market leader in the CPU and System IP industry and this has been achieved by consistently delivering reliable and high quality IP products. The cost of design and manufacturing is high and that warrants “right first time” approach for all IP and System products. Time-to-market is essential for our partners to take care of steadfast competition in the marketplace, being first would enable them to get premium value from the end products. In this context, Design Verification of CPU IPs is an exciting challenge requiring an engineering abilities that is both broad and deep.

Responsibilities

As an Engineer responsible for CPU Random Tools for stress verification, you will work on a sophisticated Random Instruction Sequences (RIS) tool. With a combination of techniques, the tool verifies the functionality of our CPU cores, being designed in Austin (US), Cambridge (UK), Chandler (US) or Sophia Antipolis (FR). The existing team ensures addition of new architecture features, its customization to specific CPU cores, and provides support.

You will be based in Arm’s Bangalore design centre in India.

As Verification Engineer, your role will cover the development of the tool from development to deployment, and accountable for:

• Understanding the intricacies of the CPU micro-architecture and defining how to push the test boundaries;
• Architect and develop solutions to improve the generation of stimuli to produce programs to stress our next generation CPUs;
• Implementing and supporting the tool, from the early stages of CPU development to product maturity.

Required skills and experience :

• 8 years of stable proven experience with significant project contributions
• Problem Ownership and ability to work from abstract requirements
• You hold experience in software design, and should be comfortable working with low-level hardware
• You have good solid understanding of programming languages, such as C and Python
• You are knowledgeable about CPU architecture and micro-architecture concepts
• You are able to understand assembly language (ASM)
• You have strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well as part of a team with the willingness to tackle varied technical challenges.

Desirable Skills

• Fundamentals of Processor Architecture.
• Basics of ARM Architecture.
• Familiarity with EDA tools and Hardware Design Verification.

In Return

Our offices are amazing places to collaborate. If you are interested, but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome versatile people into Arm!

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

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Equal Opportunities at Arm

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