Staff Firmware Engineer jobs at Arm in United Kingdom, Bristol

You will be responsible for support and maintenance of downstream product quality firmware of Arm Neoverse CSS based platform solutions. You will provide primary interface to all customers for support and maintenance requirements. Your responsibilities will include defect management, feature back porting and defect fixing. You will work closely with the release team for coordination of downstream release updates for customers post-launch releases. You will be working alongside firmware development team in contributing to the design and development of solutions for Arm Neoverse CPU and System IP based Infrastructure platforms.

• Expert in C programming for embedded systems with excellent debugging skills.
• Experience in development and maintenance of product quality firmware with good knowledge of bootloaders and device drivers.
• Defect triaging and defect management experience of system software.
• Good understanding and experience maintaining software compliant with industry specifications such as UEFI and ACPI.
• Familiarity with technologies such as RAS, hypervisors, CXL, power management and security.

• Experience in providing support and maintenance of production quality firmware in server segment.
• Experience in working with open-source community. We value understanding of open-source project development cycles and contribution processes.
• Providing customer support in triaging and resolving reported issues.
• Familiarity with open-source projects such as Linux Kernel, TF-A, UEFI EDK II and OpenBMC.

• Release engineering and branch management for the production firmware releases.
• Providing tested releases of production quality downstream firmware to partners.
• Development of release plans in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Documentation of release notes and effective communication to internal and external collaborators
• Management of entire release process, including branch management and all aspects of software version control.
• Management of CI pipelines for downstream firmware release processes.
• Line management, coaching and mentoring to a team of highly skilled software engineers.

• Proven experience in Release management and Release automation of product quality system software.
• Experience in software building and build management – for official downstream software release candidates and formal releases.
• Engineering management experience leading a diverse team spread across multiple locations.

• Experience in release management of production quality firmware in server segment.
• Hands on experience with Yocto SDK.
• Defect triaging and defect management experience of system software releases.
• Familiarity with QA of platform software for server platforms.
• Familiarity with open-source projects such as Linux Kernel, TF-A, EDK II and OpenBMC.

For this role you will have knowledge of verifying and testing sophisticated IP such as CPU/GPU processors with memory controllers, NE/AI accelerators and interconnect fabrics.

You will ensure all these products work effectively with each other and the software to enable our partners to produce outstanding systems!

• As a creative verification engineer with a knowledge of SoC integration verification, SoC scenario verification, SoC performance verification, CHI/PCIe/CXL, DDRx/LPDDRx integration verification in SoC RTL.
• Your key responsibilities will include writing test plans, defining test methodologies, developing SystemVerilog/Verilog testbenches and tests, and debugging of test failures and issues.
• Working with project management and leads on planning tasks, setting schedules, and quality checkpoints.
• Collaborate with engineers from other teams including architecture, design, implementation, modelling, performance analysis, silicon validation, FPGA and board development
• Staff Engineers are also encouraged to mentor junior members

• Proven understanding of digital hardware design and Verilog/Systemverilog HDL
• Experience in SoC verification using UVM and Embedded Low-level programming experience including C/C++ and assembly language(preferably ARM)
• Experienced in one or more of various verification methodologies – UVM/OVM, formal, power aware verification, emulation
• Exposure to all stages of verification: requirements collection, creation of verification methodology plans, test plans, testbench implementation, test case development, documentation, and support
• Good Problem Solving and Debugging skills.

• Knowledge of SoC Verification Flow and strategy.
• Experience with ARM-based designs and/or ARM System Architectures.
• Porting peripheral driver software
• Clock Domain Crossing verification
• Experienced in GLS, DFT/DFD, Power Aware verification techniques
• Experience in embedded operating systems, device drivers, microprocessor and embedded system hardware architectures.
• Experience verifying subsystems for PCIe, LPDDR, HBM, UCIe, Ethernet
• Development and deployment of large SoCs on emulation platforms
• Automation experience with shell programming/scripting (g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc.)

• This is a new team, and there is plenty of opportunity to shape its future, and your own growth and progression. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the AI revolution and be a core part of Arm's key strategic objectives!

As Principal Security Architect, you will be a part of Security Architecture team based in Ra’anana, Israel. You will be responsible for writing architectural specifications and definition of security requirements of Arm products for the Mobile, Infrastructure, Automotive and IoT markets.

• Architecture of Arm Root of Trust found in Arm Solutions for various market segments
• Develop security related system architectures that address the needs of Arm’s target market segments, standardize key concepts but leave space for partner differentiation
• Perform threat modelling and defining security requirements for hardware and software or Arm products
• Work with product teams and other Arm architecture teams to define the next generation security products
• Provide guidance on system architecture and requirements to Arm engineering teams

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering. Other degrees will also be considered with relevant experience.
• Proven experience with Hardware or System Security Architecture
• Confirmed experience in designing chip level HW architectures and specification documents for hardware systems (SoC)
• Confirmed design/verification or software development experience

• Experience with Arm processors, CPU architecture and SoC subsystems
• Familiarity with cryptography, data security, network security, security standards, SoC security
• Experience in developing and analysing complex systems
• Another engineering / science degree (in different field) is an advantage