FPGA Prototyping/Emulation Engineer

Job Overview:
Arm's FPGA & Emulation team enables early validation of ARM IP and complex RTL Designs through FPGA prototyping and hardware emulation platforms. As an FPGA Engineer, you will help accelerate pre-silicon development by building, integrating, and debugging FPGA and emulation systems used across Arm's engineering teams!
You will work at the intersection of hardware design, verification, automation, and infrastructure to improve development turnaround time, validation coverage, and debug efficiency.

What you could be doing as an FPGA Prototyping/Emulation Engineer?
As part of the FPGA and Emulation team, you may:

• Build, integrate, and support FPGA prototypes and emulation platforms from RTL, enabling early validation of Arm IP and complex RTL designs.
• Develop and maintain FPGA and emulation flows, including build, compile, runtime, and automation workflows to improve scalability and efficiency.
• Debug functional issues, simulation/emulation mismatches, and bring-up challenges across subsystem and multi-chip systems.
• Create testbenches, monitors, or transactors to support functional verification, performance analysis, and software/firmware bring-up.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, and software teams to support diverse use cases including functional validation, performance measurement, hybrid emulation, and post-silicon debug readiness.
• Enhance infrastructure for CI/CD integration, remote access, scheduling, and emerging automation approaches, including ML-assisted methodologies where applicable.

We are looking for individuals who:
Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Microelectronics, or a related field. Candidates with alternative degrees will also be considered if they have relevant experience.

Qualities that will help your application stand out:

• Understanding of digital logic design, CPU/SoC architecture, and hardware emulation or FPGA flows.
• Experience with HDLs such as Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL.
• Familiarity with FPGA toolchains (e.g., Xilinx Vivado, Intel Quartus) or emulation platforms (e.g., Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, Protium, HAPS).
• Programming or scripting experience in Python, Tcl, Shell, or C/C++.
• Exposure to verification methodologies, simulation tools, waveform debugging, or hardware/software co-simulation.
• Comfort working in Linux environments with build systems (Makefile, CMake) and version control tools (Git or Perforce).
• Strong analytical, debugging, and collaboration skills with an interest in automation and continuous improvement.

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Salary Range:
$126,100-$170,500 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
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Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.