Staff Electronics Hardware Lead Engineer

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Job Overview:

Are you seeking a new technical lead and design challenge in a growing hardware development team in a world leading company? If you are looking for a role that combines both technical leadership and hardware development in an environment where you can make a meaningful contribution and collaborate with a delivery focused, committed team that builds innovative SoC platforms, we look forward to hearing from you!

 

We seek an experienced system-level, hardware design lead to bring your knowledge and expertise to make a long term impact to the success of the project and the wider business. The team works at the forefront of embedded design alongside Software, SoC, Characterisation and Verification teams focusing on prototyping Arm's latest IP products. We develop physical hardware platforms, based around Arm's custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.

Responsibilities:

As a Board Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for the architecture and leadership of a board project team. The specification, design, commissioning and delivery of new hardware platforms for development and validation activities for internal teams and external partners to enable Arm to produce the optimal products for our customers. Work alongside the platform architects to define engineering specifications for the boards and provide direction to the design team. You may also work with and lead ODMs and CEMs for product development and delivery.

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor of Science degree in EE/CS, related field or equivalent experience

Experience in requirements capture, developing design specifications and providing technical guidance to a mixed ability board-level hardware team

Fundamental understanding of compute architectures and functional building blocks. Detailed knowledge of embedded system and board design, involving complex SoC devices

Experience of EDA tools for schematic entry, PCB layout and signal/power integrity from a board-design perspective (Cadence OrCAD CIS, Allegro PCB design suite)

Understanding of high-speed digital design (PCIe and LPDDR) and signal integrity, developing routing guidelines for complex PCB stack-ups and topologies

Recent experience of the full hardware development lifecycle, including NPI for embedded systems, ideally with CEM/ODMs and external design partners

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with system architects, silicon and software teams with the passion to drive individuals to succeed

Delivery focused, confident in planning, task tracking and status reporting, ability to prioritise and manage risk. A creative and structured approach to problem-solving

Flexible and adaptable to change, experience in working in a fast-paced environment

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to write coherent documentation

Comfortable at working with individuals of all levels, fields and customers/partners

Desirable Skills and Qualities:

Experience with mechanical design concepts and thermal management

Appreciation of programming languages such as: assembly language (ideally Arm assembler), higher-level (e.g. C), object orientated (e.g. C++)

In Return:

You will gain a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance. Opportunity to utilise your engineering skills to develop technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. Work alongside many other engineering teams including software, SoC implementation and verification, collaborating and enabling engineers and designers. Extend your design expertise, producing high quality designs incorporating Arm IP. You will enjoy new technical challenges faced when using advancing technologies!

 

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Accommodations at Arm

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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

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