Senior Digital Design Engineer

Arm; Trondheim; Hybrid; NOK 785,000 - 1,063,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Parental leave

Job summary

Arm’s GPU Design Team in Trondheim is seeking an experienced hardware design engineer to help develop Mali GPUs, balancing power, performance, and area for the next generation of graphics processors.

You will drive RTL design across micro-architecture, build and optimize GPUs, and lead design choices to meet aggressive PPA targets while enabling AI workloads. The Trondheim team offers hybrid working and strong engineering culture.

Qualifications

• RTL design experience for GPUs, CPUs or DSPs.
• Proven track record delivering complex IP blocks from spec to sign-off.
• Ability to perform metric-driven design space exploration and trade-off analysis.
• Ability to work independently and manage own schedule.

Responsibilities

• Derive specifications from architecture requirements.
• Design and optimise complex GPU blocks for multiple generations.
• Deliver IP blocks on time while meeting PPA targets.
• Provide technical leadership for a block within the GPU.

Skills

RTL design experience

Complex block design

Design space exploration

Independent work

Tools

UVM

Formal verification

Job description

Do you want to experience the excitement of playing computer games on a graphics processor (GPU) that you have designed yourself? Then this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced hardware design engineer to join the GPU Hardware Design Team and help us design the GPUs powering the devices of tomorrow!

If you enjoy solving complex technical problems and are eager to help build the next generation of GPU technology, we would love to hear from you.

Job Description

Arm’s GPU Design Team is responsible for developing the Mali™ range of graphics processors. Mali™ is one of the world’s most widely deployed GPU architectures. Our team is crafting the next evolution of Mali GPU technology for graphics, compute, and AI workloads. They are delivering improvements that will make our innovative GPU even better.

Responsibilities

This position allows you to put your technical skills and creativity to the test. You will work on micro architecture development, build, and optimization of GPUs. These GPUs will run graphics, compute, machine learning, and AI workloads while balancing aggressive power, performance, and area (PPA) targets.

What will I be accountable for?

• You will derive specifications from architecture requirements.
• You will specify, design and optimise complex blocks for use across multiple generations of GPUs.
• You will deliver IP blocks on time whilst meeting PPA targets.
• You will take technical leadership for a block within the GPU.

Required Skills and Experience :

• You will have shown experience of RTL design for GPUs, CPUs or DSP.
• Broad project experience where you have owned and carried out design and implementation of complex units or sub-systems, from specification to design sign-off.
• You can do metric driven design space exploration, including the knowledge of how to evaluate and compare different solutions and pick the one that is the best trade-off between PPA requirements of the product
• You have the ability to work with a high level of independence and schedule own work and tasks.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

• Experience with high level programming in languages such as C/C++.
• Knowledge of verification techniques such as UVM or formal verification
• Familiar with functional safety aspects of design and verification, including knowledge of ISO 26262.

In Return:

• Competitive benefit package. Our benefits package in Norway includes competitive pay, private medical insurance, 30 days of annual leave, 20 days of sabbatical every 4 years, parental leave, supplementary pension, and wellness benefits.
• Our Trondheim team engages in ambitious engineering alongside a strong focus on work-life balance, flexible working and time outdoors. Norway offers excellent healthcare, education and family support systems, alongside easy access to nature and outdoor activities year-round.

By joining Arm, your ideas will make a difference and have the opportunity to lead, challenge the norm and ultimately change the world of media processing. We value engineers who are curious, collaborative and motivated by solving difficult technical problems.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [e-mail] . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Salary Range: 785,000 kr - 1,063,000 kr per year