Job Description

ARM Introduction

If you have a smartphone, digital camera, digital TV, gaming console or a smart meter at home, you’ve already used an ARM Powered product. Over 125 ARM Powered products are shipped every second and over 35 billion ARM technology-based chips have been shipped to date making us the world’s leading Intellectual Property (IP) semiconductor supplier.

We see a world where billions of people can collaborate, communicate and connect every day. Improving people’s lives by enabling access to affordable, easy to use intelligent electronic products and services which transform the way we live and work.

We’re at the heart of driving the future of our digital world, as we build and support collaborative and open relationships. Working side by side with the leading technology companies across the globe we design and license IP to enable them to innovate. Together with our partners, it is ARM technology that is enhancing the lives of over six billion people connected in the world today.

Graduate Opportunities

The aim of our Graduate Development Programme is to develop your potential and expand the opportunities on offer to you – giving you an incredible variety of potential career paths. We’ll support you with continuous learning and development through a blend of on the job and formal training, mentoring and a knowledge network while encouraging you to achieve professional chartered status.

Together, we will shape the lifestyles of the next billion people in a better world – one that’s always-on, always-connected.

Introduction

The ARM France CPU group, based in Sophia-Antipolis on the French Riviera near Nice, designs and develops new ARM architectures and processor cores as well as new variants of existing cores. The group is characterized by highly intelligent and motivated engineers working at the forefront of technology within a company that is the world leader in embedded 32-bit microprocessors.

Job Purpose

ARM’s Sophia Antipolis design centre is located in one of the most beautiful parts of France, at the heart of Europe’s largest and most dynamic technology park. Surrounded by mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, this exceptional design centre has delivered leading products from ARM’s Cortex processor family. These CPUs power some of the world’s bestselling smartphones, tablets and gaming systems, using technology that has taken user experience and performance to another level.
Now working on the next generation of processors that will appear in the most desirable products over the next 3 years, the Sophia Antipolis design team is a good combination of very experienced engineers and some of the most talented graduates, coming from the very best engineering schools.  Collectively, the team is highly innovative, collaborative, delivery orientated and committed.

Candidates will need to be enthusiastic about new technologies, high-end mobile computing, and innovation. You will be working on a highly challenging project, to push the performance, power and area boundaries of the next high-end ARM processor. This requires deep interest in advanced processor features, excellent knowledge of computer systems, and a high degree of creativity.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

The responsibilities of CPU design engineers at ARM include working closely with customers to develop on CPU. Specific roles within projects will include architectural design, writing specifications, modeling and simulation in Verilog, synthesis and production test generation. The Design Engineer is also heavily involved in IP generation and IP re-use and makes extensive use of the state-of-the-art digital design and implementation methodologies.

Job Requirements

Education & Qualifications

Preferably graduate from a French University or Engineering School, in electronic engineering or computer science ideally, although other science graduates would be considered if they have relevant experience.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 0-3 year microprocessor, ASIC systems or HDL and Synthesis design experience
  Enthusiasm and drive.
  Prepared to be assigned to tasks across the full range of your skills and experience, as and when opportunities arise.
  Ability to express ideas and communicate effectively
  Ability to schedule own workload and plan tasks
  Good inter-personal skills
  Willingness to be flexible and accept new challenges
  Must be fluent in French and English
  

Back to top