Senior / Staff GPU Hardware Engineer

Cambridge
1 year ago
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Do you want to experience the excitement of playing computer games on a graphics processor (GPU) that you have crafted yourself? Then this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced hardware design engineer to join the GPU Hardware Design Team and help us craft the GPUs powering the devices of tomorrow!

 

Arm’s GPU Design Team is responsible for developing the Mali™ range of graphics processors. Mali™ is the most sold GPU in the world and a team of diverse, highly motivated and creative engineers are dreaming up improvements and technology that will make our innovative GPU even better.

Job Overview:

In this inventive role, you get to use your technical skills and creativity while working on micro architecture development, design and optimization of GPUs that will run graphics, compute, machine learning and AI workloads at blistering speeds within a fixed energy and area budget. How cool is that?

Responsibilities:

You will derive specifications from architecture requirements.

You will specify, design and optimise sophisticated blocks for use across multiple generations of GPUs.

You will deliver IP blocks on time whilst meeting PPA targets.

You will take technical leadership for a block within the GPU.

Required Skills and Experience :

You will have confirmed experience of RTL design for GPUs, CPUs or DSP.

Broad project experience where you have owned and carried out design and implementation of sophisticated units or sub-systems, from specification to unit sign-off

You can do metrics-based design space exploration, including the knowledge of how to evaluate and compare different solutions

You have the ability to work with a high level of independence and schedule own work and tasks.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

Experience with high level programming in languages such as C/C++or Python

Knowledge of verification techniques, including formal verification

Familiar with functional safety aspects of design and verification, including knowledge of ISO 26262.

In Return:

In return, you will get to influence the direction of our Mali and Immortalis GPU product lines, learn about the latest GPU and graphics technologies, utilise your engineering skills to build support for the technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. You will be able to drive and bring your ideas to a wider group of our leading guides, create your technical leadership and influencing skills and build towards becoming an established and recognised guide within the existing team.

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Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

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 race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran

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