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SoC Verification Engineer

Job ID 2025-16421 Date posted Dec. 15, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Hardware Engineering, Verification Apply

Job Overview:

The FPGA team is part of the global Productivity Engineering organization, providing FPGA prototyping platforms that enable early validation and software development for Arm‑based IP and systems. The team supports a wide range of market segments including mobile, server, IoT and automotive.

Responsibilities:

  • Implement verification strategies to ensure detailed testing of the assigned Subsystem or SoC module.
  • Work closely with design engineers, architects, and other verification engineers to understand design requirements and plan verification.
  • Apply excellent verbal and written communication skills to report verification progress, issues, and results to customers.
  • Automate test cases and regression suites to improve verification efficiency and coverage.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Solid understanding of SoC Verification (using C Testcases), hardware description and verification languages e.g. SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL.
  • Understanding of Computer architecture, bus protocols (e.g., AXI, AHB), and peripherals.
  • Experience with Tcl, Python or other scripting languages.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

  • Experience with ARM-based designs and/or ARM System Architectures.
  • Familiarity with ARM debugger and trace features e.g ARM DS, DSTREAM
  • Knowledge of memory subsystems and/or high speed peripherals (e.g. PCIe/CXL) will be a plus, including integration of these IP models into a design.

10x Mindset at Arm

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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.

Test Our Limits. Your Limits

Every day the world invents something new to put our chips to the test. You can do the same. Because verification at Arm goes way, way beyond debugging – it’s solving the novel problems behind tech that barely exists yet. It’s working at the bleeding edge of machine learning, simulation software, model checking and hardware prototyping systems. It’s thinking the unthinkable and being sure we’re ready for it.

Drive change on Arm

At Arm, you'll influence 100% of the world's connected devices and all their applications. From healthcare and infrastructure to virtual reality, you'll affect nearly all industries worldwide, racing toward new milestones and achievements together.

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Life at Arm

Life in the office doesn’t get any better, especially when those offices are as sleek as ours and the people in them are innovative and supportive. Combine that with our focus on delivering as One Arm, and you’ll experience the kind of collaboration and togetherness that’s rare to find elsewhere. We share so much in common, not least a passion for progress, but we also celebrate each other's diversity.

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