ASIC Front-End Design Engineer

Job Overview:
The Arm Security Technology Team is seeking a highly motivated Staff ASIC Front-End Design Engineer to lead the design and development of complex security and compute subsystems for advanced SoC platforms.
This exciting opening focuses on efficient microarchitecture development, high-quality RTL implementation, and design closure. The position emphasizes front-end EDA methodologies and design PPA (power, performance, area) analysis and optimization.
The preferred candidate will be part of a team that combines expertise in RTL design and ASIC front-end design methodologies, including synthesis, timing closure, structural signoff checks, and design optimization flows.
You will collaborate on architecture, verification, and implementation partners to deliver robust, synthesis and timing-clean designs that meet ambitious PPA targets. This role requires technical leadership, teamwork, and mentorship in RTL quality, design methodology, and front-end design closure practices.
Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality SystemVerilog/Verilog RTL implementations aligned with architecture and design requirements.
• Contribute to microarchitecture definition and design trade-off analysis to optimize functionality, performance, and implementation efficiency. Apply microarchitecture and RTL-level power analysis and reduction techniques to improve PPA early in the design cycle.
• Develop designs that are synthesis-clean, timing-clean, and structurally robust throughout the development cycle.
• Develop and refine SDC and UPF constraints ensuring timing convergence and robust power domain implementation.
• Lead front-end design structural check closure including CDC and RDC verification, lint and structural design checks, logic equivalence checking (LEC), and DFT readiness.
• Manage and optimize complex power designs including VCLP and multi-voltage domains and advanced low-power methodologies.

Required Skills and Experience :

• Strong understanding of full ASIC flow: RTL → Synthesis → P&R → Signoff → GDS.
• Proven experience with ASIC front-end design and verification methodologies including: synthesis, static timing analysis, CDC / RDC analysis, lint and structural checks, LEC, and constraint development.
• Competency analyzing and optimizing designs for power, performance, and area (PPA).
• Solid understanding of SoC architecture concepts including: multi-clock and reset architectures, standard bus protocols (AXI, AHB), IP and subsystem integration.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Tcl, Perl, or similar languages.

"Nice To Have" :

• Familiarity working with multi-power-domain designs and UPF-based flows.
• Experience with advanced process nodes and large-scale SoC development.
• Familiarity with formal verification tools and methodologies.
• Experience collaborating closely with physical design and CAD teams on design closure.
• Experience supporting post-silicon debug and validation.

In Return:
We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to innovate, defy ordinary, and shape outstanding products!

• Partner and Customer focus - We anticipate and exceed customer needs.
• Teamwork and Communication - We collaborate optimally across diverse teams.
• Creativity and Innovation - We challenge the status quo. We develop careers and personal growth.
• Impact and influence - We deliver measurable, trusted results.
• Deliver on your promises -You demonstrate ownership and accountability.
• United in Purpose, Empowered Through Inclusion - We value diversity to build better solutions.

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Salary Range:
$154,700-$209,300 per year
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