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Staff Engineer

Job ID 2025-15791 Date posted 09/10/2025 Location Sophia Antipolis, France; Cambridge, United Kingdom Category Applications Engineering
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Staff Engineer

Location: Sophia Antipolis FR ,Cambridge UK

About the role 

We are looking for a skilled and highly motivated Senior Field Application Engineer to join a 7 folks' team support ARM engineers for multiple hardware pre-silicon verification and performance workflows. You will become the first interface between the team, the partners (ARM engineers that create our hardware products), internal tool providers, cloud and EDA vendors.

About the team 

Working in Cambridge or Sophia-Antipolis office, you will be assigned to work with folks located within the Europe region folks, also supporting other sites in US or India too. Our team is spread across UK, Europe, and US. Given the span of the team and partners locations, you may have travel opportunities to work at partners' sites.

What will you be accountable for? 

The role covers: 

  • Creation and Maintenance of Documentation, User Guide and Training Material

  • Delivery of Training to partners. The best you train them the less support follows

  • Autonomous, equipped by your problem solving skills, be the primary technical interface between partners, vendors and workflow developers 

  • Support partners in migrating their testbenches to our flow or transitioning them to another EDA Formal/property checking tool or internal tools or cloud vendor.

  • Fixing all simple bugs on the production branch and provide recommendations to the development team as required.

Job Requirements

What skills, experience and qualifications do I need? 

We will require a track record of accomplishments applying verification methodologies with an emphasis on formal. You must be comfortable in Python to understand the flow, propose fixes to customers and even do some bug fixes in the flow if required. You must have experience with the EDA Formal/property checking tool such as Cadence Jasper Gold.

Essential Attributes 

  • A deep understanding of methodologies and flows applied to functional hardware verification of innovative IPs and subsystems.

  • Experience of “scaled-out” deployment of technology across a global organisation

  • Experience of supporting workflows

  • Experience of collaborating with EDA vendors

  • Strong scripting skills (Python, UNIX shell scripting) – being able to develop scripting to support new flows.

  • Knowledge of one Formal tool with at least a proficiency for one and an understanding of the 2 others.

  • Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work well as part of a culturally diverse environment.

  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience as application engineer or customer support role

Desirable Attributes 

  • Proficiency in Formal verification

  • Exposure to the complete software development process including the use of configuration management (git/gerrit)

  • Knowledge of Docker containers

  • Eagerness to travel to other ARM sites globally

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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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.

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