Ai System Architect jobs at Arm in United Kingdom, Cambridge

As a hardware design engineer, you will make a difference by influencing the design methodology, taking ownership of complex work packages and driving them to success, including front-end implementation tasks like synthesis, logic equivalence check, power analysis and optimizations.

• An understanding of the entire ASIC/FPGA design flow and knowledge of hardware description languages: Verilog or System Verilog.
• Confirmed delivery record of high quality, low power, high performance sophisticated micro-architecture and RTL implementations in reasonable timescales.
• Skilled in planning design tasks and producing realistic effort and time estimates.

• Experience in working with requirements definition and management.
• Formal verification experience.
• Proficiency in developing C/C++ models of a microarchitecture.
• Familiarity with Arm architecture and AMBA bus protocols.
• Experience with CI platforms and version control tools.
• Practical knowledge of machine learning and neural networks.

This position can be either located in Cambridge or Lund.

• Design and develop test cases and sample applications to ensure production-quality software.
• Collaborate with global teams to build and automate CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with open-source communities and partners to maintain system-level test cases.
• Adapt to testing various components across the networking software stack.

• Expertise in testing software interfaces and functionality in C/C++/Python.
• Strong grasp of multicore processor architectures and low-level systems.
• Experience developing automated test frameworks, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and improving software quality.
• Skilled in defect identification, data analysis, and performance benchmarking.
• Proficiency in Git and distributed version control systems.

• Experience with open-source software maintenance, SDN, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Hands-on testing of AI networking stacks (e.g., PyTorch, RDMA/RoCE, NCCL).
• Performance benchmarking and multi-node setup testing using traffic generators like IXIA.

As an experienced quality assurance engineer, you will contribute to the work of the quality team on an exciting new range of Arm hardware devices aimed at AI use cases, applying deep technical expertise to ensure high performance, reliability and maintainability. You will implement processes to ensure quality is established in every stage during software development, and will collaborate with software teams to define, develop and automate tests for their components as well as the integrated solution.

• Working with software teams to establish and implement quality processes in every stage of the development cycle
• Test development for firmware and Linux-based systems (kernel, device drivers and applications)
• Test and workload automation with regular and reliable execution and effective reporting
• Delivering tasks with minimal guidance and contributing to the implementation of larger / more complex work

• Experience in developing test plans, software validation techniques and designing effective and efficient test cases
• Good understanding of computer architecture principles and hardware-software interaction, and proficient in C programming and common scripting languages such as Python
• Effective communicator and ability to collaborate well within and across teams

• Familiar with quality management standards such as ISO9001
• Experience with CI systems and test automation involving physical and simulated hardware devices

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.

Responsibilities

• As a creative design engineer with a knowledge of subsystemsandSoCs you will be part of a team integrating IPanddeveloping logic for SoCs.
• You will work with the project team to understandandreview the architecture,anddevelop the design specifications.
• Your key responsibilities will include writing micro-architecture specifications, developing the RTL, fixing bugsandrunning various design checks.
• You will work with the verification team to review test plans,andhelp debug design issues.
• You will work with the performance analysis team to evaluateandimprove subsystem performance.
• You will also contribute to developingandenhancing the design methodologies used by the team.
• You will guideandsupport other members of the team as needed to enable the successful completion of project activities.
• You will balance other opportunities such as working with Project Management on activities, plans,andschedules

Required SkillsandExperience:

• In addition to bringing your accomplishment of either Bachelors or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering.
• Experience of 5+ years working in design of complex compute subsystems or SoCs, you will need:
  • Strong knowledge of digital hardware designandVerilog HDL!
  • A thorough understandingandexperience of the current design techniques for complex SoC development.
  • Experience creating design specifications
  • Experience developing RTL for SoC projects
  • Experience with Perl, Python or other scripting language

Desired SkillsandExperience:

• Experience with ARM-based designsand/or ARM System Architectures
• Experience integrating subsystems for PCIe, LPDDR, HBM, UCIe, Ethernet
• Experience with SystemVerilogandverification methodologies – UVM/OVM/e
• Experience leading small teams or projects
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas
  • Synthesisandtiming analysis
  • Static design checks, including CDC, RDC, X-Propagation, Linting
  • Power management techniques
  • DFTandphysical implementation

Produce reliable and robust research and analytics; devise and investigate new ideas for workload analysis, and the development of new and innovative tools.

• A solid understanding of systems that uses multiple types of computing cores such as CPUs and GPUs, and the factors that impact on performance.
• Ability to understand and discuss deep technical topics at different levels to a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to represent complex data with innovative visualisations.

The following are some of the skills and knowledge you will acquire in this role, so existing experience or interest in any of these areas would be of benefit!

• Detailed performance analysis of computing platforms.
• Experience building applications for mobile or windows platforms.
• Experience analysing and optimising performance of applications.
• Understanding of the interactions between applications and OS Kernel, and hardware.

• Travel across Europe and the UK, supporting our partners in the games industry in their use of Arm technology
• Collaborating closely with your counterpart team in China to share knowledge
• Keeping up to speed on the latest graphics techniques, learning from other teams within the company
• Sharing lessons learned and providing feedback to our research and tooling development teams, driving our future roadmaps

• Understanding of modern Game Engine rendering pipelines
• Ability to debug and modify graphics features
• Graphics profiling knowledge
• Modern graphics API knowledge (Vulkan, DirectX12)
• Shader development and optimization skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• The ability to integrate yourself as a guest in a new team and share your knowledge while respecting the domain and skills of the team you are advising
• High debugging skills for both CPU and GPU
• Experience in working with large codebases, both adding features and maintaining
• Programming experience (C++ and shader languages)
• Experience with version control system and delivering software.

• Shader development and optimisation skills
• Debugging skills for both CPU and GPU
• Experience in working with large codebases, both adding features and maintaining
• Knowledge of emerging AI graphics techniques
• Games proven experience, ideally as part of an engine / CoreTech team
• Familiarity with CI pipelines and validating / testing the codebase