Engineer - Validation

Job Title

Engineer - Validation

Role Summary

Validate low-speed peripheral IPs integrated into Arm-based SoCs and subsystems. Work with firmware, verification, design, and platform teams to plan, execute, and close validation activities across simulation, emulation, FPGA, and board bring-up environments.

Experience Level

Mid-level. No explicit years-of-experience specified in the posting.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include planning and executing validation for peripheral IP, creating firmware and tests, debugging across hardware and software, and contributing to automation and validation collateral.

• Develop, review, and execute validation plans for assigned peripheral IP and features.
• Create bare-metal firmware, low-level drivers, and reusable test content for peripheral validation.
• Validate functionality on simulation, emulation, FPGA, and development/evaluation boards.
• Bring up and debug IPs and subsystems using register-level programming, memory maps, logs, traces, waveforms, and hardware debug tools.
• Analyze failures, identify root cause, and coordinate with design, verification, firmware, and platform teams to resolve issues.
• Contribute to automation, regression execution, and continuous improvement of validation methodology.
• Maintain validation collateral, test documentation, execution reports, and debug notes.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to meet validation milestones and quality targets.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience for successful performance in this role.

• Practical experience in IP, subsystem, SoC, firmware, or post-silicon validation.
• Good understanding of embedded systems, SoC architecture, and hardware-software interaction.
• Experience with low-speed peripheral interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C, GPIO, timers, watchdogs, mailboxes, interrupts, or similar).
• Strong C programming skills for bare-metal firmware or low-level driver development.
• Familiarity with register-level programming, memory-mapped I/O, interrupts, polling, and exception handling.
• Experience in test development, execution, debug, and issue triage across simulation/emulation/FPGA/silicon bring-up.
• Scripting experience for automation and log analysis (Python, Perl, shell, or similar).
• Working knowledge of simulation, emulation, FPGA, or silicon bring-up environments and standard SW development tools (Git, Makefiles, code review flows).
• Strong analytical, debugging, and cross-functional communication skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Arm-based SoCs or Cortex-A/M/R systems.
• Experience with pre-silicon emulation platforms (Veloce, Palladium, Zebu) or FPGA prototyping and board bring-up.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Arm

Headquarters: Cambridge, United Kingdom

ARM is a global leader in semiconductor and software design, driving innovation in computing technology. The company specializes in designing processors and systems that provide the essential building blocks for electronic devices. ARM's architecture is widely used in smartphones, servers, and IoT devices, and its collaborative culture fosters bold thinking, diversity, and high-impact benefits for its talented workforce.