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Senior Verification Engineer

Job ID 2022-5978 Date posted Sep. 09, 2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Verification Apply

Job Description

Are you passionate about digital hardware verification? This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting-edge Arm IP, helping craft technology that powers the next generation of mobile apps, portable devices, home automation, smart cities, self-driving cars—and more!

This role sits within Arm’s Solutions Engineering team, which drives the specification, RTL design, and verification of advanced compute subsystems for Arm-based SoCs. As part of this group, you’ll collaborate closely with design engineers who deliver low-power, high-speed, area-efficient architectures, ensuring that verification strategies maintain the highest quality and robustness. The team’s scope extends to leadership in methodology improvement, functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508), and scalable silicon solutions across automotive and complex ASIC products—giving this role both technical depth and strategic impact.

Responsibilities

Joining our growing and versatile team, you’ll contribute to the development and verification of industry-leading hardware designs. Collaborating with experts across global design centers, you’ll drive impactful projects and help deliver Arm’s next-generation IP using the most sophisticated tools and methodologies.

As a verification engineer, you will make a difference by:

  • Influencing the verification strategy and methodology.
  • Taking ownership of complex work packages and driving them to success.
  • Working closely with design teams to validate subsystem functionality, performance, and safety-critical robustness.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring high-quality verification that minimizes bug escapes.
  • Proven experience in block-level verification using UVM or similar methodologies.
  • Strong knowledge of coverage-driven verification for complex designs.
  • Proficient in specifying, creating, and debugging SystemVerilog/UVM constrained-random testbenches.
  • Skilled in planning verification tasks and producing realistic effort and time estimates.
  • Experience in embedded C-based SoC verification environments would be helpful.

Additional Qualities That Will Help Your Application Stand Out

  • Experience in working with requirements definition and management with Formal verification experience. .
  • Proficiency in developing C/C++ models of a microarchitecture.
  • Familiarity with Arm architecture and AMBA bus protocols.
  • Knowledge of functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) in automotive or complex ASIC products.

The Arm 10x Mindset

At Arm, we live by our 10x Mindset — a cultural framework that challenges us to think bigger, aim higher, and deliver impact at scale. Inspired by a founder’s mentality, it means caring deeply about our mission, working as One Arm, and building extraordinary teams. It’s about challenging skillfully, simplifying what we do, and relentlessly pushing boundaries. We move at pace, take ownership, and stay resilient in the face of change. You’ll see the 10x Mindset embedded in how we hire, onboard, develop, and grow our people. By joining Arm, you’ll bring curiosity, boldness, and focus to help us accelerate impact and shape the future of compute together.

In Return

With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, innovative, and highly proficient engineers. As well as a friendly and high-performance working environment, Arm offers a competitive benefits package. We have a hybrid working approach where we offer people the flexibility to work part time from home and part time from the office.

We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to shape extraordinary! These behaviours are assessed as part of the recruitment process.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. 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. 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

We create a safe space for you to nurture both your physical and mental wellbeing.

Work and Life Success

We empower people to experience life beyond the boundaries of standard work patterns.

Financial Rewards

We provide benefits beyond a competitive salary to reward our people for their dedication and contributions.

Development and Support

We foster professional and personal development, building a supportive community where everyone can thrive.

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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