Memory Design Engineer

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**About**the**role**:
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 work on different types of memories, volatile and non-volatile.

**What**will**I**be**accountable**for?**:
In this role you will be working on the following areas:

- Understanding memory architectures and memory compiler development flow
- Transistor full-custom design and collaboration with the physical design team for layout realization
- Developing new features, improvements and optimizations in order to meet Performance, Power and Area targets
- Running memory characterization and analyzing results
- Be comfortable with basic programming tasks (scripts, memory compiler tiling code)
- Ensuring high quality and high-performance memory designs with the lowest possible power as needed for Arm CPUs, GPUs, and SOCs.

**What**skills,**experience,**and**qualifications**do**I**need?**:

- Have a relevant circuit design experience (for MSEE)
- Demonstrate some experience in physical IP design (memories or standard cells or IOs or PHYs)
- Have designed on silicon technologies equal or smaller than 28nm

**Essential**Attributes**:

- Basic memory principles, especially single-port-SRAM ones
- Good understanding of technology trade-offs in deep sub-micron technologies
- Familiar with Cadence Virtuoso and with Spice, FastSpice simulators
- You love working in a collaborative environment
- You appreciate thematics linked to quality, methodology and efficiency improvements

**Desirable**Attributes**:

- Knowledge of Java
- Statistical simulations (e.g. Monte-Carlo)

At Arm, we are guided by our core beliefs that reflect our open culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy ordinary and shape extraordinary:
**We**not**I**:

- Start with long-term value to customers and partners, and work back from there.
- Collaborate, decide, commit, and bring people with you.
- Make the most of all the skills and knowledge across Arm; share information with those who need it.
- Care about the people around you.

**Passion**for**progress**:

- Work with pace and judgment. Adapt to circumstances.
- Take risks in support of Arm's progress.
- Be accountable for the decisions you make. Learn from failure.
- Pursue innovation relentlessly.

**Be**your**brilliant**self**:

- Be authentic.
- Seek and embrace differences.
- Encourage curiosity and challenge.
- Give people trust and autonomy; show people they can trust you to do brilliant work in pursuit of Arm's goals.

With offices around the world, Arm is a diverse organisation of dedicated, innovative and highly skilled engineers. By enabling a vibrant, diverse, inclusive, meritocratic, and open workplace, where all our people can grow and succeed, we encourage our people to share their unique contributions to Arm's success in the global marketplace.

**About**Arm**:
Our innovative technology is licensed by Arm Partners who have shipped more than 50 billion Systems on Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies

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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 any characteristic.