Arm
Principal System Level Product Engineer
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Job ID 2026-17721
Date posted: 06/07/2026
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Category: IT
Job Overview
Arm has an exciting opportunity for a Principal System Level Product Engineer in our Product Engineering team. You will work with Architecture, SoC Design, Validation, Test, System, Software, and Quality teams throughout the company, to guide manufacturability of pioneering designs across foundry/assembly and own the manufacturing flow at SLT. You will play a key role in preparing Arm and our partners on how to introduce new products in areas such as 2.5D/3DIC and sub-3nm nodes. The role drives industry-leading products from pre-SI readiness through post-SI bring-up. The role requires hardworking product engineering focus on power, performance, cost, and manufacturability.
Responsibilities
- Work with line-of-business and architecture teams to understand product requirements.
- Own technical pre/post silicon operations cross product engineering aligning cross-functionally with design, packaging, software, silicon validation, test, and quality.
- Be the point of contact for Product Engineering team for multi-functional collaborators.
- Work with partners on enhancing yield and characterization methodologies, using integrated sensor frameworks and yield mitigation strategies.
- Own post-silicon manufacturing test flow, yield improvement, system level qualification, failure debug, and SOC testing at SLT.
- Drive correlation and validation of VF margins used for SLT testing, correlating functional failures to ATE and execute shift left strategies.
- Up to 20% travel within the US and internationally for company and partner meetings.
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Required Skills And Experience
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, with a strong CPU, SoC, or GPU silicon bring-up and product engineering background.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in system level product engineering, including manufacturing test, yield improvement, silicon characterization, and system level reliability qualification.
- Broad expertise in bare metal testing and functional testing concepts for SoC testing (compute subsystem and high speed PHY's UCIE/PCIE/DDR) and SW diagnostics framework.
- Strong understanding of device physics, digital/mixed-signal design, foundry and assembly process, and CPU/GPU/SoC power and performance dependencies.
- Proficiency in IC data tools such as Silicon.da/Optimal+ and analyzing data using JMP.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong initiative, and openness in engaging and learning new concepts and sharing with collaborators.
“Nice To Have” Skills And Experience
- Experience in System design and/or system architecture.
- Experience in system validation of high speed IO.
- Software scripting skills using Python.
Please note that no relocation package is available for this role.
Salary Range
$249,900-$338,100 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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Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
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 race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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