Senior RTL Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior RTL Design Engineer

Role Summary

Senior RTL engineer in a multidisciplinary Bristol team designing digital IP used across AI, automotive, edge and infrastructure products. Responsible for micro-architecture and RTL implementation and for collaborating with architects, verification, back-end and subsystem teams to deliver silicon-quality IP.

Experience Level

Senior. The listing indicates a senior-level role; no explicit years-of-experience requirement stated.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Analyse specifications and identify implementation challenges; work with architects to refine designs.
• Plan, track and coordinate tasks for self and contribute to team task planning.
• Collaborate with verification, back-end implementation, performance, power analysis and subsystem teams to meet functional, area, power, performance and integration requirements.
• Improve and evolve RTL design methodology and flows.

Requirements

Must-have:

• Proven micro-architecture and RTL design experience using SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL.
• Ability to evaluate high-level design trade-offs and justify design decisions.
• Knowledge of ASIC or FPGA design methodology and IP signoff approaches, with understanding of timing/area/complexity trade-offs for complex datapaths.
• Experience with static design checks, synthesis, timing analysis and power management techniques.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Nice-to-have:

• Familiarity with memory-system interconnects (e.g., AMBA ACE-Lite, AXI).
• Experience with PCIe, I/O virtualization and address-translation.
• SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and formal verification experience.
• Scripting experience (Perl, Tcl, C shell, Python).
• Knowledge of hardware verification languages and functional-safety methodologies.

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.