Senior Safety Verification Engineer

Job Title

Senior Safety Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Work on verification of safety-critical hardware IP/subsystems/SoCs and their safety mechanisms to support safety certification. The role sits on an engineering verification team collaborating with design, architecture, and functional-safety stakeholders.

Experience Level

Senior — typically 5+ years of IP, subsystem, or SoC verification experience (guidance from posting: 5+ years).

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include defining and executing verification activities that demonstrate compliance with functional-safety requirements.

• Develop and execute verification plans for functional-safety requirements and safety mechanisms at IP, subsystem, and SoC levels.
• Build and maintain verification environments, testbenches, assertions, checkers, and coverage models using SystemVerilog/UVM and related tools.
• Execute and analyze simulations and fault-injection campaigns; debug failures and drive root-cause resolution with designers.
• Trace safety requirements to verification activities and produce objective evidence supporting safety claims and standards compliance.
• Contribute to safety documentation and reviews (FMEDA assumptions, fault models, verification results) required by ISO 26262 / IEC 61508.
• Automate regressions, coverage analysis, and reporting; improve verification flows and reuse.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience.

Must-have

• Strong RTL verification skills with SystemVerilog, Verilog, and UVM (constrained-random, reusable components).
• Experience developing SoC-level tests and test infrastructure using C/C++.
• Familiarity with functional-safety concepts and standards (ISO 26262 and/or IEC 61508).
• Experience with simulation debug, coverage-driven verification, and root-cause analysis.
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, or similar) for automation and analysis.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills across distributed teams.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Arm-based designs or Arm system architectures.
• Knowledge of AMBA protocols (AXI, AHB, APB), CDC/RDC, power-aware verification, UPF/CPF.
• Exposure to FMEDA, safety analysis, lockstep/ECC/watchdog mechanisms, assertions/ABV, formal, or gate-level simulation.

Education Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electronics, Electrical, or Computer Engineering (as stated in the posting).

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.