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RTL Design Engineer (CPU team)

Job ID 2025-16085 Date posted Nov. 20, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Design Engineering Apply

Job Overview:

Are you creative, innovative and enthusiastic about new technologies with a keen interest in CPU architecture and RTL Design? You are at the right place: apply now!

We are looking for a CPU RTL Design Engineer to join Arm’s CPU Design & Verification team in Cambridge. We build the CPUs that power billions of devices worldwide, from smartphones and datacentres to cars and IoT systems.

In this role, you will contribute to the creation, testing, and optimisation of Arm’s next-generation processors.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to microarchitecture specification, RTL design and performance trade-off analysis.
  • Develop CPU logic in hardware description languages and scripting.
  • Support verification to tape-out quality using simulation, formal and emulation platforms.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Degree from a University or Engineering School in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic / Electrical Engineering, or other related field.
  • Working experience in digital design.
  • Strong RTL design skills in Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL.
  • Analytical thinking and problem solving approach.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Knowledge of computer architecture.
  • Ability to make trade-offs between power, performance and area appropriately to meet product requirements.
  • Knowledge of scripting languages like Perl, TCL or Python.
  • Exposure to C/C++, assembly language and/or verification methodologies like UVM and formal.

In Return:

In addition to a competitive salary and a comprehensive rewards package, you will receive the support, autonomy, and opportunity to work with new technologies, be challenged and grow your career. You will get the opportunity to collaborate in a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and multi-site environment.

Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work:https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset

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.

Piece Together The World’s Most Powerful Puzzle

This world has a design. It’s infinite yet discoverable. Small yet powerful. Our design engineers must all at once predict it and create it. From implementation of the most advanced CPU, GPU and HPC processors on the planet to dreaming up every eventuality that could put our SoC and system IP to the test, we puzzle over the biggest questions of our time. And microarchitect the future.

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 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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