Staff Applications Engineer (Platform Hardware & Board Enablement)

Job Title

Staff Applications Engineer, Platform Hardware & Board Enablement

Role Summary

Customer-facing applications engineering role supporting Arm-based server platforms across board, silicon, and system domains. Work with customers and internal teams to enable platform bring-up, board-level validation, laboratory debug, and performance optimization.

Based at Arm's Shanghai office and collaborating with global engineering, solutions, quality, and partner enablement teams.

Experience Level

Senior-level - multiple years of experience in semiconductor, server hardware, or platform development (exact years not specified).

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for platform bring-up and stabilization, collaborate across teams, and deliver customer-facing artifacts and training.

• Act as primary customer hardware interface during development, EVT/DVT/PVT and deployment; lead platform stabilisation activities.
• Perform hands-on laboratory debug at board and system level; reproduce and isolate issues spanning silicon, package, PCB and system.
• Review and advise on board design, schematic and PCB layout decisions.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to track issues to closure and coordinate fixes across teams.
• Produce and deliver workshops, documentation, app notes and white papers to capture and share lessons learned.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and attributes.

• Multiple years' experience in semiconductor, server hardware, or platform development.
• Strong practical board hardware bring-up, validation and debug experience.
• Experience reviewing schematics and PCB implementations, including stack-up, routing, impedance control, and power distribution.
• Knowledge of CPU, DDR, PCIe, I/O, power management, clocks, reset and server architecture.
• Recent hands-on use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and protocol analyzers in laboratory debug.
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills and proficient spoken and written English.
• Highly self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal day-to-day management.

Nice-to-have:

• Cadence Allegro experience.
• Linux and Python/Bash scripting.
• OEM/ODM or hyperscaler experience.
• Experience applying AI in an engineering environment.

Education Requirements

Master's degree or equivalent in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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.