Memory Design Engineer

How would you like to join Arm at a time of transformation in our industry?

Our memory development group comprises some of the industry’s leading experts in deep submicron circuit design. This position is a rare opportunity for you as a memory circuit professional to work with our successful circuit and layout team. You will discover a wide variety of groundbreaking foundries and deep submicron technologies while collaborating with our team on many different types of memories.

This job is for a memory designer for developing and validating best in class memories for Arm CPUs, GPUs and SOCs. You get a chance to take part in designing memories on advanced process technology nodes from various foundry offerings.

Responsibilities:

In this role you will be working on the following areas:

Understanding memory architectures and memory development flows

Transistor level full-custom design and collaboration with the physical design team for layout realization

Developing new features, and optimizing and improving Arm memories to meet Performance, Power and Area targets in advanced technology (3 nm and beyond)!

Contribute in all parts of the memory development flow, starting at design specification, circuit design and perform design margining, physical verification, memory characterization, FE verification, release procedure, and QA flow for memory used in CPU, GPU and SoCs.Become comfortable with use of AI to develop scripts to improve execution efficiency and quality

Ensuring high-quality and high-performance memory designs with the lowest possible power as needed for Arm CPUs, GPUs, and SOCs!

Required Skills and Experience :

Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or other relevant technical fields with emphasis in VLSI design or Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with relevant work experience2-5 years of circuit design experience (SRAM preferred)
Demonstrate project experience in physical IP design (memories, standard cells, IOs, or PHYs)
An understanding of basic memory principles, especially for SRAM.A good understanding of technology trade-offs in deep sub-micron technologies

Experience with Cadence Virtuoso or similar schematic and layout editing tools, and with Spice and Fast Spice simulators

You love working in a collaborative setting

You enjoy innovation and continuous improvement

You appreciate methodology and efficiency improvements“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

Have designed on silicon technologies equal or smaller than 28nmHave some exposure to CMOS layout

Statistical simulations (e.g. Monte-Carlo)
Familiar with basic coding with Perl, .tcl, java, UNIX Familiarity with AI tools

Additional Information Salary Range:$130,100-$176,000 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.

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