Senior SoC / IP Verification Engineer

arm limited; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in tech innovations seeks creative SoC Verification Engineers for its Systems Development team in Cambridge. You will be responsible for verifying sophisticated IP products, ensuring seamless integration among diverse systems and software, while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams. The position offers competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare, and generous leave options.

Benefits

Competitive reward package

Healthcare and wellness support

Contributory pension

25 days of annual leave

Option to buy 5 additional leave days

Qualifications

• Experience with C/C++ SoC verification environments.
• Knowledge of verification methodologies, including UVM and formal.
• Hands-on experience with processor-based system designs.

Responsibilities

• Write test plans and define methodologies for functional verification.
• Collaborate with various engineering teams for verification tasks.

Skills

Embedded C/C++ based SoC verification

Assembly language (ARM)

SystemVerilog

Shell scripting (Tcl, Perl, Python)

UVM

Low power design

Emulation

Job description

The Role

Arm’s Systems Development team builds subsystems and SoC designs for various application segments, using the latest IP products from Arm and other vendors. We are looking for creative and enthusiastic SoC Verification Engineers to join the team. In this role, you will verify and test sophisticated IP such as CPU/GPU/DSP processors with memory controllers and interconnect fabrics, ensuring these products work effectively with each other and with software to enable our partners to produce outstanding systems.

Responsibilities:

• Write test plans, define test methodologies, and complete functional verification to meet quality standards and schedules.
• Collaborate with engineers from architecture, design, implementation, modelling, performance analysis, silicon validation, FPGA, and board development teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience with embedded C/C++ based SoC verification environments.
• Knowledge of assembly language (preferably ARM), C/C++, hardware verification languages (SystemVerilog), shell scripting (Tcl, Perl, Python).
• Experience with verification methodologies such as UVM, formal, low power, or emulation.
• Exposure to all verification stages: requirements, test plans, testbench, test cases, documentation, and support.
• Hands-on experience with processor-based system designs.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• Understanding of Arm system architectures.
• Knowledge of machine learning, neural networks, automotive, or computer vision applications.
• Experience with power-aware design and clock domain crossing.
• Background in embedded operating systems, device drivers, microprocessors, and embedded hardware architectures.
• Verification experience with subsystems like PCIe, LPDDR, HBM, UCIe, Ethernet.
• Experience in developing and deploying large SoCs on emulation platforms.
• Leadership, mentoring, or coaching experience in technical teams.

In Return:

We offer a competitive reward package including healthcare and wellness support. Benefits also include a contributory pension and 25 days of annual leave, with an option to buy an additional 5 days per year.