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SoC Verification Engineer

Job ID 2025-16033 Date posted Oct. 28, 2025 Location Manchester, United Kingdom Category Hardware Engineering, Verification Apply

Arm’s Solutions Engineering team builds subsystems and full SoC designs for a wide range of application segments, leveraging the latest IP from Arm and other vendors.

We are seeking creative and enthusiastic SoC Verification Engineers to ensure that complex SoCs function correctly across integrated components such as CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, memory controllers, and interconnects.

You will play a key role in validating the complete system operation and ensuring seamless interaction between hardware and software layers to deliver high-quality silicon for our partners.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute test plans and verification methodologies for SoC-level designs.
  • Complete functional verification to the required quality standards and schedules.
  • Collaborate with project leads and management on planning, scheduling, and quality checkpoints.
  • Ensure progress and quality of SoC verification activities.
  • Work closely with teams across architecture, design, implementation, modelling, performance analysis, silicon validation, FPGA, and board development.
  • (For senior engineers) Mentor and guide junior verification engineers.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Proven experience in embedded C/C++ based SoC verification environments.
  • Strong understanding of assembly language (preferably ARM).
  • Proficiency in hardware verification languages such as SystemVerilog, and scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience in UVM, and at least one of formal verification, low power, or emulation.
  • Exposure to all verification stages:
    • Requirements collection
    • Methodology and test plan creation
    • Testbench development and test case implementation
    • Documentation and support
  • Practical experience verifying processor-based system designs.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to Have Skills and Experience

  • Solid understanding of Arm system architectures.
  • Experience with power-aware design and Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) verification.
  • Familiarity with embedded OS, device drivers, and hardware/software integration.
  • Experience verifying subsystems and interfaces such as PCIe, LPDDR, HBM, UCIe, and Ethernet.
  • Experience in developing and deploying large SoCs on emulation or FPGA platforms.

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 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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