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Staff Hardware Design Engineer - ISP

Job ID 2025-14113 Date posted Jun. 23, 2025 Location Manchester, United Kingdom; Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Design Engineering Apply

At Arm, the ISP group (Image Signal Processor) designs image processors and similar technology for markets including automotive, drones, teleconferencing and surveillance. Our intellectual property includes RTL, reference drivers, tools and libraries enabling our customers to build on top of our work to create new and innovative products.

Job Overview:

You will be a part of a team which designs and implements new hardware modules to efficiently implement image processing algorithms, improves existing designs to increase performance, quality and power efficiency and builds ISP pipelines using these modules.

Our design engineers need to constantly push the power, performance and area boundaries while generating designs that are robust, maintainable and deliverable to the outstanding quality that our customers expect.

Responsibilities:

ISP engineers have responsibilities that cover all areas of design and verification: working closely with customers, architectural design and modelling, writing specifications, design and simulation, verification of functionality, generation and maintenance of designs.

You will also identify areas for improvement in processes and methodologies, then implement those changes to advance our best-practises for hardware design.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Experience of ASIC RTL design, preferably for ISP, processor design (CPU or GPU) or related IP (interconnect, memory controllers, high-performance peripherals)
  • Experience of Verilog, System Verilog or VHDL
  • Exposure to all stages of design: concept, specification, implementation and testing, documentation and support
  • Excellent communication skills

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • Experience/understanding of image processing functions
  • Experience of designing to meet industry standard protocols (e.g. AMBA interfaces, DDR specifications)
  • Experience of Functional Safety product development for the Automotive market (applying standards such as ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508)
  • Programming language, such MATLAB, Python, C or C++
  • Leading high performing teams to meet project timescales and quality requirements

In Return:

We offer a competitive reward package including annual RSUs awards, healthcare and wellness support as well as other benefits such as a 4-week sabbatical earned after 4 years with the company.

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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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