Staff Verification Engineer

Job Overview Our Solution Engineering division develops and verifies IPs for a variety of SoC projects, integrating both internally developed designs and third-party IP. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Staff Verification Engineer to lead verification activities for complex IP and subsystem developments within Arm-based SoCs.

You will drive verification strategy, guide project execution, and work closely with architecture, design, and verification teams to ensure high-quality product delivery. Responsibilities In addition to bringing your accomplishment of either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field, you will: Lead verification activities for complex IP and subsystem developments from planning through signoff.

Collaborate closely with architects and RTL designers to understand specifications, microarchitecture, and verification requirements. Define verification strategies and drive their implementation across the project team. Develop and enhance verification environments, including stimulus generation, checkers, scoreboards, coverage models, and reusable verification infrastructure.

Own verification plans, test plans, coverage models and signoff criteria. Drive functional and code coverage closure and ensure verification completeness. Lead debug of complex design and verification issues, coordinating resolution across teams where required.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to verification engineers within the project. Contribute to methodology improvements, reusable verification components and verification best practices across the wider organization. Collaborate effectively with globally distributed engineering teams to deliver project objectives.

Required Skills and Experience Significant experience in IP, subsystem or SoC verification. Extensive experience with systemverilog UVM and/or other industry-standard verification methodologies. Strong experience developing constrained-random verification environments and reusable verification components.

Proven experience defining verification strategies, verification plans and coverage closure approaches. Good understanding of the complete verification lifecycle from requirements analysis through verification signoff and deliverables. Experience leading verification activities for complex projects or major functional areas.

Understanding of SoC verification, including software-driven verification flows. Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl or similar. Strong debugging, analytical and problem-solving skills. Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience Experience with Arm-based designs and/or Arm system architectures. Experience with AMBA protocols such as CHI, AXI, AHB and APB. Experience with JTAG, SWD or TAP-based debug infrastructures. Experience with clock domain crossing (CDC), reset domain crossing (RDC), and power-aware verification.

Exposure to low-power design techniques and UPF/CPF methodologies. Experience with DFT concepts, including scan and MBIST. Experience with formal verification techniques. Experience contributing to verification methodologies, frameworks or reusable infrastructure used across multiple projects.

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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.

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