Staff Board Designer Engineer

arm limited; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an experienced board designer for its Hardware Platform team in Cambridge. The role focuses on developing cutting-edge hardware platforms and PCB designs for embedded systems. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in high-speed design and possess strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with various engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in high speed design and embedded board design required.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge in PCB design and schematics.
• Strong communication and documentation skills in English are essential.

Responsibilities

• Specify, develop and commission new hardware platforms.
• Drive PCB development, schematics and layout.
• Collaborate with program team to meet project timelines.

Skills

High speed design experience

Knowledge of PCB stack-ups and topologies

Embedded system board design

Knowledge of LSI devices

Understanding of high speed IO standards

Knowledge of PCB EDA tools

Excellent communications

Excellent written and spoken English

Tools

Cadence CIS

Mentor PADs Layout

Allegro PCB design suite

Hyperlynx tools

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Client:

arm limited

Location:

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Yes

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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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.