Senior Principal Advanced Technology

Arm's Solutions Engineering (SE) Physical IP (PIP) team has an opening for an Advanced Technology DTCO engineer with broad experience across all physical design stages from RTL to Signoff GDS experience. In this role you will define and lead the initial analysis and bring-up of new foundry process technologies and perform advanced design and development to assess and enable adoption of new technology features.

The role requires broad circuit & physical design skills in order to assess new process technologies & to understand how these technologies will impact future ARM products. The successful candidate for this role will have a broad range of design experience with the ability to quickly assess changes in process PDK kits and how these will impact current & future ARM designs. Have ability to synthesize assessments and solutions working with early and possibly incomplete process and design information making use of experience, judgement, and advanced analysis will be required. This position will also be immersed within Arm’s future technology research activities exploring potential future process technology features and their impact. You will have the opportunity to interact with directly physical IP architects, physical design implementation teams, and design architects. Our team has a diverse set of engineers working across five design centers globally, servicing both internal & external partners around the world.

An Arm a Senior Principal Engineer is high-ranking technical role with high visibility at all levels within the company. Senior PEs set technical direction in their areas of expertise and align with other senior members of the technical staff. They act as role models and mentors to less senior engineers. Senior PEs may represent Arm in a technical capacity to external parties.

• Lead the analysis for new foundry technologies and future potential technology features.
• Analyze and interpret results of DTCO/STCO studies of future technologies and assess the impact to ARM’s current & future products.
• Participate in Arm’s circuit and physical design research activities with our research partners.
• Support and teach internal and external partners.
• Mentor more junior engineers on all technology trends and issues.
• Deeply understand current and future process node technologies, and the impact on block-level physical design.
• Understand EDA tools and algorithms for circuit synthesis, physical design, and analysis
• Collaborate with EDA on physical design flow improvements.
• Collaborate with teams across Arm to perform root-cause analysis of issues and develop innovative solutions.

• A BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other relevant technical fields. (15+ years design experience (for BSEE) or 12+ years design experience (for MSEE))
• Detailed knowledge of current process technology and along with expected trends for process technology development.
• Experience working with groundbreaking foundry technology or advanced process technology research.
• Experience with most common EDA tools pertaining to circuit design, simulation, and place-and-route tools
• Ability to use common scripting languages to build utilities or procedures to adopt existing EDA tools for new features and analysis.

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong leadership skills, be self-motivated, persistent, and resilient with capability to operate in the face of ambiguity.

We are proud to have a set of behaviors that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary. These behaviors are assessed as part of the selection process:

• Partner and customer focus
• Teamwork and communication
• Creativity and innovation
• Team and personal development
• Impact and influence
• Deliver on your promises

We offer a hybrid approach to home and office working to provide an adaptable experience for all employees. We expect some working time to be spent in office, to promote a strong collaborative environment with good team integration but are accommodating to different home working requirements.