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Principal System Architecture Engineer - Media & Vision

Job ID 2024-13235 Date posted Feb. 20, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Hardware Engineering Apply

Job Overview:


In Arm's Central Technology group we are building trail-blazing future technology which will keep Arm-based products redefining the state-of-the-art. We are looking for a hardworking Principal System Engineer to join us as part of the CT-Systems Multimedia and Applied Computer Vision Team. This team is responsible for multimedia and vision oriented algorithm design, technology research, as well as next-gen Arm Multimedia Subsystem Architecture for mobile, large screen compute and other market segments. Are you passionate about shaping the future of multimedia and vision compute at Arm? Do you want to see the architectures you have invented being used by millions of people? We may be looking just for you!

Responsibilities:

  • You will be part of Multimedia System Architecture team, giving you the opportunity to develop and make a relevant contribution into Arm compute subsystems
  • The role will give you also outstanding opportunity to interact with world class specialists, architects and engineers, both inside and outside Arm
  • The role offers working with hardware models, as well as RTL prototypes of multimedia processors, focused on evaluation of next-generation features and understanding PPA of those components
  • This System Engineer role asks for deep understanding and experience in design, modelling and verification of multimedia HW IP
  • You will contribute to Arm Multimedia Subsystem architecture definition work by formulating power, performance analysis plans and test strategies


Required Skills and Experience:

  • Expertise in media subsystem architecture, as well as hardware design & verification aspects of multimedia IP - Display Processor design experience is a requirement
  • Understanding real use case data-flows in modern heterogeneous compute platforms, with complex interconnect and memory systems
  • Experience in analysis of power and performance of media and vision use cases, also with inclusion of AI compute, their data paths for Client devices, as well as control software, drivers and APIs
  • In depth understanding of various system design trade-offs: hardware vs. software partitioning, power, performance, memory bandwidth, latency, quality-of-service, real-time vs. non-real-time traffic
  • Good understanding of modern ML methods to guide design prototyping, modelling and verification


"Nice to Have" Skills and Experience:

  • Technical Leadership experience on the complex multimedia processor project, or part of it
  • Expertise in using HLS (High Level Synthesis) tools and flows to generate prototype RTL
  • Good understanding and experience in using mixed HDL environments, and co-simulation (C/C++, SystemC, SystemVerilog)
  • Experience working with Arm AMBA protocols and system IP, such as MMU, DMA, Compression blocks


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