ARM FPGA SW Validation Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

730503967

You’ll contribute to the FPGA prototype validation process, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality platforms to end-users in ARMs Software, performance-analysis and SoC-validation teams. You’ll act as an intermediary between platform end-users and SoC development team(s), providing triage and debug support. This role requires a strong focus on engineering efficiency, the successful candidate will possess strong test automation skills and understanding of the benefits brought by continuous integration methodologies.

• Commissioning of FPGA prototyping hardware including specification of peripheral hardware.
• Validation of sophisticated SoC prototypes
• Gathering platform requirements from key partners, ensuring these are implemented and where not possible/feasible providing alternative solutions
• Building test flows and automation environments.

• Strong C programming skills.
• Understanding of linux and bare-metal peripheral drivers.
• Strong scripting skills, Python, TCL, C-shell, GNU Make.
• Recent experience in software development or product validation, tests automation and continuous integration frameworks
• Embedded software knowledge for debug and test.
• A creative and structured approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to write coherent documentation.

• Experience of AMBA protocols and Arm CPU and System IP.
• Experience of high-speed IO interface standards such as USB, MIPI C/D-PHY, UFS, etc...
• Understanding of SoC verification, in particular directed-C based environments.
• Knowledge/Experience of PCIe/CXL and DDR memory sub-systems.

You will expand your expertise, be challenged and work with advancing technologies. You will work alongside many other engineering teams including software, SoC implementation and verification. You will be involved in deep technical discussions, working with top class multifunctional engineering team