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Senior Software Engineer - CPU verification

Job ID 2025-15453 Date posted Sep. 02, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Software Engineering, Verification Apply

Job Overview:
Are you creative, innovative and passionate about new technologies? Would you like to work in a multi-site and multi-cultural environment?

We want to grow our cross-site Verification team, especially in Cambridge. For this purpose, we are hiring a highly skilled and motivated software engineer to join our team, and contribute to the delivery of future groundbreaking processors.

Interested in this challenge? Apply now and join!

Responsibilities:

Participate in the development of a complex and sophisticated verification environment. Using a combination of techniques, the environment is used to verify the functionality of CPU IP products developed in our design centers worldwide, with a particular focus on the execution pipeline and the exception model.

The role will cover the whole lifecycle of the environment, from development to support, and you will be accountable for:

  • Gathering requirements from the CPU Design and Verification teams
  • Understanding the new architectural features, which are regularly added to the Arm Architecture Reference Manual
  • Architecting and developing solutions to support those features so that they can be stressed when verifying their implementation within the next generation CPU products
  • Implementing, maintaining and supporting the environment


Required Skills and Experience:
Hold a University or Engineering School degree. This can be a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic / Electrical Engineering. Candidates with alternative degrees will also be considered if they have relevant experience. Other requirements:

  • Proven experience in object-oriented software programming (C++ and Python)
  • Understanding of assembly language (ASM)
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to work well as part of a team and a willingness to address varied technical challenges


“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

  • Knowledge of CPU architecture and micro-architecture concepts
  • Experience in RTL Verification & Design techniques (SystemVerilog or VHDL)
  • Experience in software testing and library API design
  • Exposure to dependency management tools, performance profiling techniques

In Return:
At Arm, you’ll join a world-class team that values creativity, innovation, and technical excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to work on industry-leading CPU technologies that shape the future of computing, while collaborating with diverse teams across the globe. We offer a supportive environment where continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and personal development are encouraged.

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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.

Test Our Limits. Your Limits

Every day the world invents something new to put our chips to the test. You can do the same. Because verification at Arm goes way, way beyond debugging – it’s solving the novel problems behind tech that barely exists yet. It’s working at the bleeding edge of machine learning, simulation software, model checking and hardware prototyping systems. It’s thinking the unthinkable and being sure we’re ready for it.

Drive change on Arm

At Arm, you'll influence 95% of the world's connected devices and all their applications. From healthcare and infrastructure to virtual reality, you'll affect nearly all industries worldwide, racing toward new milestones and achievements together.

Revolutionary Benefits

Health and Wellness

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Work and Life Success

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Financial Rewards

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Development and Support

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Life at Arm

Life in the office doesn't get any better — especially when those offices are as sleek as ours and the people there are creative and compassionate. Combine that with our popular 'we, not I' mindset, and you enjoy the kind of teamwork and togetherness rarely found elsewhere. We share so much in common, not least the same passion for progress, but we also welcome each other's diversity. Ultimately, we love to inspire and be inspired every day.

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