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Sr Formal Verification Engineer

Job ID 2025-15698 Date posted Oct. 15, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Verification Apply

In the fast-moving world of CPU Verification, Formal Methods are becoming crucial to the success of today's ever-accelerating development cycle. Arm’s CPU Group is looking for engineers with experience in Formal Verification who desire to be at the cutting edge of applied formal methods.

We are offering the chance to become part of a dedicated team that will deploy Formal on the next generation of CPU designs. This is an opportunity to influence design & verification decisions and shape the future of technology that will fuel billions of devices world-wide!

Job Overview:

You will apply Formal Methods to CPUs developed across the Cambridge and Chandler design centres, with the opportunity to collaborate with our global Formal Teams across Arm.

Responsibilities:

The role entails investigating, creating, developing and deploying new Formal Verification techniques on live projects. You will use the industry’s best available tools and be in close contact with EDA tool vendors. You will work alongside Arm’s brightest formal experts to plan and implement Formal Verification to exceptional quality.

Required skills and experience:

  • Minimum 5 years of experience verifying sophisticated designs using formal properties verification techniques
  • An engineering mentality and passion for digital design verification, excellent attention to detail and reasoning skills
  • Understanding of fundamental verification concepts, computer architecture, micro-architectural concepts
  • Ability to understand and map abstract formal concepts into designs

'Nice to have' skills and experience:

  • Familiarity with industry-standard formal verification tools
  • Proficiency in scripting languages, e.g. Python/Perl/TCL
  • Proficiency in shell programming/scripting
  • Familiarity with Arm architecture and instruction set
  • Familiarity with model-checking techniques
  • Exposure to invariants and abstractions
  • Understanding of assume-guarantee reasoning
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant subject. Other STEM degree types may also be considered.

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.

Accommodations at Arm

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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

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