Staff platforms hardware engineer - united kingdom, cambridge, cambridgeshire

we are looking for an experienced board designer to join arm's hardware platform team. the team is based in cambridge, uk, working at the forefront of embedded design focusing on prototyping arm's latest ip products.

we develop physical hardware development platforms, based around arm's custom system-on-chip (soc) and fpgas.

the platforms are used for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.

do you aspire to:

extend you board level design expertise, producing high quality pcb designs incorporating arm ip and be challenged and work with advancing technologies.

gain a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance.

work alongside many other teams including software, soc implementation and verification engineers and designers.

then we have the ideal role!

responsibilities: the specification, development, and commissioning of new hardware platforms. driving the pcb development, including schematics and pcb layout and commissioning. this will also include collaborating with our cem, proactively providing manufacturing support. working closely with the program team, competency in planning and scheduling tasks, to meet project timescales, is also required.

required skills & experience: high speed design experience, able to demonstrate knowledge of pcb stack-ups and topologiesdetailed knowledge of embedded system board design, designing with complex lsi devices such as fpgas, demonstrating an understanding of various high speed io interface standards such as pcie and ddra broad knowledge of eda tools for schematic entry pcb layout and signal integrity analysisembedded software knowledge to test and debug the design with a creative and structured approach to problem-solvingexcellent communications & interpersonal skills with a desire for learning and self-improvementexcellent written and spoken english; ability to write coherent documentation 'nice to have' skills and experience: the following skills are not essential for this role, but experience in any of the following areas would enhance the application:

experience in using cadence cis, mentor pads layout and hyperlynx toolsrtl skills in verilog or vhdluse of a unix environment and shell programming/scripting in e.g. tcl, perl, python etcprogramming languages such as: assembly language (ideally arm assembler), higher-level (e.g. c), object orientated (e.g. c++)we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. we will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. please contact us to request accommodation.

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