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Senior Post-Silicon DDR Characterization Engineer

ArmChandler, AZ$161,500-$218,500 per year

This engineer will join Arm’s Chandler characterization team and help validate silicon performance before products reach customers. They will create Linux and bare-metal stress workloads, develop characterization plans, execute tests, and investigate system-level failures. The work requires close collaboration with post-silicon validation, firmware, hardware, and other engineering groups to interpret results and improve operating margins. It is well suited to an experienced silicon validation professional with strong DDR or LPDDR knowledge, software and automation skills, and hands-on debugging ability. Familiarity with Arm SoCs, memory PHY behavior, voltage and frequency margining, and laboratory tools would be especially valuable.

Requirements

Experience in pre- or post-silicon validation and characterizationKnowledge of DDR/LPDDR architectures, training, calibration, timing, and PHY operationProgramming or scripting skills in C/C++, Arm assembly, Python, or similarExperience with voltage/frequency margining and silicon operating limitsHands-on debugging with scopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, or related toolsStrong data analysis, problem-solving, and technical communication skills
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About Arm

Arm says it licenses semiconductor IP and that its Chandler office, recently expanded, develops CPU IP and runs a post-silicon characterization lab.

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