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Staff Verification Engineer

ARM
Manchester
6 months ago
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Job Overview
 
This position is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated verification engineer to join the thriving Arm Systems ISP team!

This is a fast-paced technical role employing the latest hardware design and verification methodologies to develop complex and highly configurable hardware ISP IP.This role is for the ISP product verification team.
 
The ISP group designs Image Signal Processors and similar technology for markets including Automotive, Embedded-IoT, Teleconferencing and Surveillance. Our intellectual property includes RTL, reference drivers, tools and libraries enabling our customers to build on top of our IP to create new and innovative products.
 
You will specify and develop new hardware verification testbenches for future generation hardware IP. You will improve existing testbenches to increase performance, quality and efficiency. You will also identify areas for improvement in processes and methodologies, then implement those changes to advance our best-practices for hardware verification.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Reviewing and assessing proposed design changes from a verification complexity point of view
  • Architecting verification IP and full verification environments
  • Investigating and scripting new verification flows and optimising existing ones
  • Analysis of data from simulation runs using machine learning and data science techniques to drive efficient bug discovery and debug
  • Developing methodology and deploying within the group and having full ownership of verification closure and mentoring other members of the team.
  • Close collaboration with other Arm engineering teams leading to high quality IP that works well in a complete system.
Required skills and experience:
  • Experience in working with constrained-random verification including ownership of a suitably complex verification environment and creating testbenches.
  • Experience developing re-usable and scalable code whilst having in-depth knowledge of SV-UVM.
  • Strong scripting skills – being able to develop scripts to support new and existing flows.
  • Solid software engineering skills including understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Familiar with the tools and processes for developing testbenches and finishing all aspects of the verification process.
‘Nice to Have’ Skills and Experience:
  • Team leadership and mentoring experience
  • Multiprocessing microarchitecture experience including knowledge of bus protocols (e.g. AMBA APB/AHB/AXI)
  • Past experience in Formal Verification testbenches 
  • Experience in media, video, ISP, or display projects 
In Return:

You will get to 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 experts, build your technical leadership and influencing skills and build towards becoming an established and recognised expert within the existing team.
 
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Hybrid Working at Arm

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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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