Arm is a leading company in the semiconductor industry, seeking a motivated Graduate Physical Implementation Applications Engineer to join their CPU and Subsystems physical implementation support team. This role involves providing design support services, collaborating with design teams, and developing training materials to ensure customer success in silicon implementation.
Responsibilities
- Support customer silicon success by optimizing Arm core implementations, developing design flows, and delivering premier physical design guidance
- Develop, help market, and deliver physical design support services to accelerate customer silicon success
- Cooperate and communicate with the RTL, implementation and SoC design teams e.g., evaluate core/system implementation performance vs. power tradeoffs, supplement EDA tool shortcomings with custom script workarounds, and devise physical design flows to extract optimum performance from cell and macro libraries
- Develop training collateral for our customer base
- Collaborate with EDA vendors to extend the best in class results from our designs
Skills
- Hold (or are on track to hold) a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering by September 2026
- 1 - 2 years of proven meaningful experience within the industry
- Demonstrable experience with synthesis, floor/power planning, place and route, clock distribution, signal & power integrity, DFM, physical verification, LEC and static timing analysis
- Experience in the entire IC design flow, from RTL through to PnR & STA, especially in hierarchical designs
- Master's degree is preferred
- Processor and interconnect microarchitecture
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Python and TCL and experience with Verilog RTL design
- Experience with low power design techniques (power gating, DVFS, etc.)
- DFT and MBIST
- SoC design complexity management via hierarchical implementation flows
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive rewards package
- Support, autonomy and opportunity to excel in your career
- Mid-year, and year-end review
- Grad-teach-Grads workshops
- Guest speaker series
- Various social events
- Exclusive Global Graduate Conference (GGC)
Company Overview
Arm’s foundational technology is defining the future of computing. A future built by the greatest technology ecosystem in the world. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GBR, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.arm.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Arm has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 295 in 2025, 166 in 2024, 164 in 2023, 123 in 2022, 103 in 2021, 133 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.