Company: Arm

Key Skills: CPU, interconnect, DDR, PCIe, UCIe, oscilloscopes, DAQ systems, thermal chambers, power analyzers, benchmarking and profiling tools, firmware, bootloader, UEFI/BIOS, ACPI

Roles & 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.

Skills Required:

- Bachelor's degree in science or engineering; master's degree Preferred.
- 8+ 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.
- Positive 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.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering

📌 Staff Silicon Power & Performance Engineer (System Level Test & Characterization) (Bengaluru)
🏢 ARM
📍 Bengaluru