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Principal SoC Validation Engineer (Emulation)

ARM
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/21/2025

Job Description :

Arm has excellent opportunities in the Solution Engineering group - which has a charter to develop best-in-class SoCs and compute subsystems using industry-leading Arm IP products. These solutions target different market segments like premium mobile, servers, automotive, and IoT.

The pre-silicon verification team in Bangalore is looking for highly-skilled engineers with experience in system validation of SoCs on Emulation platform.

Responsibilities :

  • Be part of the verification team, and define the emulation-based stress validation methodology & build verification plans. This will involve closely interacting with multiple cross-site & co-located collaborators like the SoC architects, designers, & DV engineers to come up with the extended stress validation plans for the product.
  • Work on multiple industry-standard emulation platforms from EDA vendors, and closely collaborate with technology teams to resolve issues with porting the design on these platforms, and to improve Arm's validation methodology on emulation
  • Take up the responsibility to identify & enable transactors, traffic exercisers, virtual host devices, and monitors on the emulation platform - which will help effective validation of the SoC design.
  • You will be accountable for planning and developing bare-metal and OS-based test content for system stress and use-case validation targeting multiple product use-cases. The team is responsible to find bugs by enabling validation content on high-speed subsystems like PCIe, Ethernet, USB, etc. and other subsystems like DDR, HBM, UFS, HDMI, MIPI devices, LSIO, etc. on emulation
  • Mentor junior engineers and work as a team to deliver on validation goals.

Skills and experience required :

  • 5 to 15 years of proven hands-on experience in SoC / subsystem validation. Emulation-based verification experience is a big plus.
  • Prior knowledge of at least one of the blocks like CPU, PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, DDR, USB, etc.
  • Experience working on industry-standard emulators, and validation using transactors or virtual devices will be a plus
  • C / C skills with strong understanding of how software interacts with the SoC, firmware, and hardware components is a requirement.
  • Understanding of OS / Linux, drivers and kernel modules is desired.
  • Expertise on hardware behavioral language (Verilog, SystemVerilog)
  • Knowledge of scripting (e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc.)
  • In return :

    Our offices are amazing places to collaborate. If you are interested, but unsure whether you tick all the boxes, we still would love you to reach out! We are keen to welcome people with versatile skills and experience into Arm!

    Accommodations at Arm

    At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things . If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self 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 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.

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