Staff System Level Test and Characterization Engineer:

Job Overview:

Join Arm as a Engineer/Senior Engineer/Staff System Level Test and Characterization Engineer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and become part of a group that fosters world-class innovation! This outstanding opportunity enables you to work on ambitious projects, ensuring flawless power, performance, and thermal characterization of Arm silicon.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute Silicon PVTF characterization activities across multiple projects and platforms.

• Develop scalable automation frameworks, regression infrastructure, data collection flows, dashboards, and reporting tools.

• Analyze leakage/static, active-idle, dynamic, and Silicon boot power to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.

• Characterize voltage droop and loadline impedance.

• Enable and port industry-standard, customer, and stress workloads required for silicon characterization.

• Collaborate with SoC architecture, firmware, validation, and systems teams to debug and resolve silicon issues.

Necessary Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering; master’s degree Preferred.

• 2 to 12 years of experience in post-silicon characterization or validation.

• Experience in characterizing any of the SoC IPs such as CPU, interconnect, DDR, PCIe, UCIe, or high-speed I/O subsystems.

• Hands-on experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, DAQ systems, thermal chambers, power analyzers, and control units/devices for measurement and debug.

• Understanding of power and Performance optimization techniques.

• Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools such as SPEC2017, LMBench, Stress-ng, Fio, iPerf, or equivalent.

• Good understanding of VRMs, PMICs, voltage rails, power delivery networks, and control mechanisms.

• Ability to analyze and interpret large datasets from instrumentation and telemetry systems.

• Experience working with firmware, bootloader, UEFI/BIOS, ACPI, or device tree flows.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• US B1/B2 valid Visa.

• Proven background in performing VMIN analysis for any of the SoC IPs (CPU, Interconnect etc.)

• Experience with pre-silicon modeling, simulation, emulation, or FPGA platforms.

• Experience closing pre- and post-silicon power and performance correlation.

• Scripting experience in Python, Shell, Perl, or similar languages.

• Programming experience in C/C++ for low-level system software.

• Experience in silicon bring-up, board enablement, validation of power management features such as DVFS, AVS, thermal throttling etc.

• Understanding of Arm architecture, SoC architecture, firmware flows, and platform power/performance trade-offs.
  
  
  
  

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