Principal Engineer - Verification IP (VIP team)

Arm Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Arm is seeking a Principal Verification IP Engineer to lead AMBA VIP products and drive their deployment across IP, Subsystem, or SoC test benches.

You will own VIP architectures, define requirements with AMBA Architects, mentor engineers, and push improvements in verification methodologies while balancing performance, quality, and schedules. This role offers hybrid working and relocation support.

Qualifications

• Significant IP/SoC verification experience with verification methodologies.
• Deep expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM based test benches.
• Strong knowledge of constrained-random, coverage-driven verification and formal verification.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving abilities with clear communication.
• Experience leading complex technical work packages and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Assume technical ownership for VIP products or areas including architecture and delivery.
• Define requirements and priorities with AMBA Architects and project leads.
• Drive architectural decisions balancing functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate on strategy, roadmaps and deliver major engineering workstreams.
• Support Arm teams in integrating VIP solutions into their benches.
• Identify and implement improvements to VIP products and verification methods.
• Provide technical mentorship across experience levels.

Skills

IP/SoC verification

SystemVerilog

UVM

Formal verification

Debugging

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Emulation

CI workflows

Job description

Job Overview:

Arm is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principal Verification IP Engineer to join our Verification IP (VIP) team.

The VIP team develops and maintains a suite of tools used for the verification of various Arm Hardware IP products. The team provides reliable, accurate, consistent and comprehensive verification tools and solutions for standard AMBA interface protocols, that are used by all Arm engineering teams.

As a Principal Engineer, you will take technical ownership of key AMBA VIP products and drive the deployment of VIP products into IP, Subsystem or SoC test benches across Arm.

This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with engineering leadership, driving innovation and continuous improvement while supporting the development of engineers within the wider team.

Responsibilities:

• Assume technical responsibility for one or more significant VIP products or functional areas, including their architecture, development, delivery, and ongoing evolution.
• Define technical requirements and development priorities in collaboration with AMBA Architects and project leads across CE/SE.
• Drive architectural and technical decisions, balancing functionality, performance, maintainability, and delivery requirements.
• Work closely with the team leadership in defining strategy, roadmap planning and deliver significant engineering workstreams, ensuring commitments are met to agreed quality and schedule expectations.
• Support engineering teams across Arm in integrating and adopting VIP solutions.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to VIP products, development processes, and verification methodologies.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers across different experience levels.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Significant experience in IP / SoC verification with deep knowledge of verification methodologies and processes
• Deep expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM based test bench or verification IP development
• Strong understanding of functional verification methodologies, including constrained-random verification, coverage-driven verification, formal verification and assertions.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience of leading complex technical work packages and engineering outcomes
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers on the team.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on knowledge of Arm Architecture and AMBA protocols such as CHI, AXI etc
• Understanding of cache coherency, interconnect architectures, and large scale Arm based Systems.
• Experience with Emulation based or Acceleration based Verification IP
• Knowledge of formal verification methodologies, protocol checkers, or assertion-based verification.
• Experience with simulation performance optimisation, verification automation, or debugging infrastructure.
• Experience in developing shared verification frameworks and reusable verification libraries.
• Knowledge of software development techniques and workflows such as Continuous Integration
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and assistants to aid day to day work and improve efficiency

Additional Information:

Please note that a relocation package (including visa sponsorship support) is available for this role, for candidates who require it.

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Hybrid Working

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

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.