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Principal Verification Engineer

Job ID 2024-13069 Date posted May. 12, 2025 Location Austin, Texas Category Hardware Engineering, Verification Apply

Are you a hardworking verification engineer looking for a new challenge? Do you want exposure to more than one part of a CPU or system? If so, we have a phenomenal opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated verification engineer. This role offers you the chance to work across a variety of CPU designs and microarchitectures. You will be working with our team in an open and relaxed culture with outstanding, creative engineers. At our Austin-based design center, you will join a small and innovative RTL design team that collaborates closely with the architects crafting the next generation of Arm architecture extensions.

As a verification engineer in this team, you will take on a versatile role as you contribute to the exploration of how new proposed architecture impacts implementations through micro-architecture investigation. You will provide the overall verification strategy for a variety of projects, each requiring a unique plan.

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be responsible for the verification methodologies for the design team across a diverse group of projects. This includes:

  • Full ownership of verification from initial investigation to closure
  • Ability to craft the appropriate verification methodology for each architectural feature
  • Ability to learn and understand existing CPU testbenches and methodologies used across Arm to assess their strengths and weaknesses for incorporation within the team
  • Ability to make strategic decisions on the short-term execution versus long-term maintainability of verification solutions
  • Delivering tests and verification IP for the design team's use

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Strong experience with SystemVerilog and UVM for verification of complex design IP
  • Broad background in CPU microarchitecture and verification strategies
  • Experience of crafting and implementing functional verification environments for sophisticated IP
  • Basic scripting languages, e.g. Perl/TCL/Python
  • Comfortable working with immature technologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Understanding of FPGA or post-silicon debug process
  • Knowledge of components outside the CPU and how they affect verification of a CPU
  • Ability to set up and maintain Formal verification environments
  • Experience with the Arm architecture

Salary Range:

$200,400-$271,200 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment 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.

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 95% 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 there are creative and compassionate. Combine that with our popular 'we, not I' mindset, and you enjoy the kind of teamwork and togetherness rarely found elsewhere. We share so much in common, not least the same passion for progress, but we also welcome each other's diversity. Ultimately, we love to inspire and be inspired every day.

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