Staff Board Designer Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking an experienced board designer to join their Hardware Platform team in Cambridge. This role focuses on developing cutting-edge hardware platforms based on custom system-on-chip designs and FPGAs. You will collaborate closely with various engineering teams, driving the PCB development process and ensuring high-quality designs. This position offers the chance to deepen your understanding of system architecture while tackling exciting technical challenges. If you are passionate about embedded design and eager to work in a dynamic team environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in high speed design and embedded systems.
• Proficient in PCB design and EDA tools.

Responsibilities

• Specification and development of new hardware platforms.
• Driving PCB development and collaborating with manufacturing support.

Skills

High speed design experience

Embedded system board design

Knowledge of PCB EDA tools

Excellent communication skills

English proficiency

Tools

Cadence CIS

Mentor PADs Layout

Allegro PCB design suite

Hyperlynx tools

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Client:

arm limited

Location:

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Job Category:

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Views:

9

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

Job Description:

The Role

We are looking for an experienced board designer to join Arm's Hardware Platform team. The team is based in Cambridge, UK, working at the forefront of embedded design focusing on prototyping Arm's latest IP products.

We develop physical hardware development platforms, based around Arm's custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.

The platforms are used for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.

Responsibilities:

The specification, development and commissioning of new hardware platforms. Driving the PCB development, including schematics, PCB layout and commissioning. This will also include collaborating with our CEM, proactively providing manufacturing support. Working closely with the program team, competency in planning and scheduling tasks, to meet project timescales, is also essential.

Required Skills and Experience

• High speed design experience, able to demonstrate knowledge of PCB stack-ups and topologies
• Detailed knowledge of embedded system board design, designing with complex LSI devices such as FPGAs, demonstrating an understanding of various high speed IO interface standards such as PCIe and DDR
• A broad knowledge of PCB EDA tools including schematic entry, layout and signal integrity analysis
• Excellent communications & interpersonal skills with a desire for learning and self-improvement
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to write coherent documentation

Desirable Skills and Qualities

The following skills are not essential for this role, but experience in any of the following areas would enhance the application:

• Experience in using Cadence CIS, Mentor PADs Layout, Allegro PCB design suite and Hyperlynx tools
• Embedded software knowledge to test and debug the design with a creative and structured approach to problem-solving.
• Enjoys collaborating and working in a team environment.
• RTL skills in Verilog or VHDL
• Use of a UNIX environment and shell programming/scripting in Tcl, Perl, Python etc.

In Return:

You will gain a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance. Work alongside many other engineering teams including software, SoC implementation and verification, collaborating and enabling engineers and designers. Extending your board level design expertise, producing high quality PCB designs incorporating Arm IP, you will enjoy new technical challenges faced when using advancing technologies.