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Central Engineering (CE) - Productivity Engineering (PE)

Central Engineering (CE) - Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Central Engineering (CE) - Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Central Engineering (CE) - Machine Learning (ML)

Central Engineering (CE) - Systems

Sales and Partner Enablement (SAPE)

Central Engineering (CE) - Productivity Engineering

Location: Cambridge

Core Skills

Programming and scripting (Python, SQL, Tcl, Perl)
Familiarity with digital design and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools
Project management tools (Agile, Jira, Confluence)

Productivity Engineering (PE) is the backbone of the Arm engineering ecosystem. We build the flows, tools, data platforms, and practices that make design teams more efficient and consistent across the company.

From automation to AI, productivity data to compliance, your work will help Arm engineers design faster, safer, and smarter. By enabling efficiency and consistency across teams, you’ll directly influence how world-class IP gets built and delivered.

About you

We’re looking for students who are curious about how large engineering organizations run and who enjoy problem-solving, analysis, and collaboration.

Helpful starting points might be:

Data analysis, statistics, or visualization
Machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Interest in security frameworks, compliance, or governance
Communication, storytelling, or technical writing.

Most importantly, you'll bring curiosity and persistence. You’ll be supported by experienced mentors and given the chance to develop skills that span both technology and operations.

Central Engineering (CE) - Productivity Engineering

What could you be doing?

Automate workflows or create scripts to improve design productivity
Build dashboards, data platforms and run analyses to highlight bottlenecks
Prototype AI models to predict verification outcomes or improve flows
Benchmark EDA tools or research industry trends
Support program managers with reporting, budgeting, and resourcing
Draft newsletters, presentations, or reports for PE-wide initiatives
Help run compliance audits or awareness campaigns
Building machine learning and applied AI skills for engineering.

Projects usually begin with small, scoped tasks but give you ownership from the start—and the opportunity to expand into bigger responsibilities as your skills grow.

Why join us?

Join the Arm Productivity Engineering team to build tools, automation, and data platforms that make global engineering more efficient, consistent, and innovative—enabling world-class IP delivery at scale.

Central Engineering (CE) - Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Location: Cambridge

Core Skills

Coursework in computer architecture or systems design
Some exposure to software-hardware co-design
Systems programming (e.g. C, C++, Rust) and scripting (e.g. Python).
Analytical and data interpretation skills

We work across the entire journey of bringing a CPU to life:

Design and verification: Imagining and realizing the logical blocks of the CPU and ensuring they work flawlessly, even under the most unpredictable workloads.
Performance exploration: Unlocking new ways to make CPUs faster and more efficient for the applications that define tomorrow.
Physical implementation: Translating design into silicon, pushing the boundaries of performance, power, and area on leading edge transistor process nodes.
Product teams: Building CPUs for a spectrum of markets: AI, infrastructure, automotive, embedded.
System validation: Proving CPUs run seamlessly with complex software stacks, from operating systems to real applications.

About you

We’re looking for students who are curious, creative, and excited by the idea of solving big problems at the smallest scales. Whether your passion is coding, analyzing data, or debugging hardware, there’s a place for you here.

Most importantly, you’ll need curiosity, persistence, and a willingness to learn. You’ll be paired with experienced mentors who will guide you as you grow. If you love understanding how computers really work, CPU Engineering is an exciting place to start your journey.

Central Engineering (CE) - Central Processing Unit (CPU)

What could you be doing?

Design and verification: Digital logic projects, Verilog/VHDL, FPGA design, or building test benches and testing parts of the CPU logic.
Performance exploration: Running and modeling simulations to study performance, energy, or workload trade-offs. Supporting adaptations of CPU designs for infrastructure, IoT, or real-time systems. Workload and performance analysis across AI, cloud, and mobile.
Physical implementation: Circuits, synthesis, or chip layout and timing optimization.
Product teams: Embedded systems, C/C++, microcontroller projects.
System validation: Linux, debugging tools, scripting, or system-level stress-testing CPUs with full operating systems and applications.

You’ll start small, but with clear ownership. As your confidence grows, so will your responsibilities, giving you the chance to see the full arc of CPU design—from concept to working silicon.

From the phone in your pocket to the cloud powering the internet, your work will directly influence how people connect, work, and play. You’ll be part of the team that enables the AI revolution and shapes how billions of people experience technology every day.

Why join us?

At Arm, you’ll help design, verify, and optimize the next generation of processors, working at the cutting edge of computing. You’ll shape the future of technology in infrastructure, automotive, and embedded systems—building solutions that touch the lives of billions worldwide. Join us and help define what’s next.

Central Engineering (CE) - Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Location: Cambridge, Manchester

Core Skills

Strong C/C++ programming skills
Interest in graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenGL) or compilers (LLVM)
Curiosity about runtime systems and shader pipelines

Software teams in GPU Engineering build the software stacks around Arm GPUs. This includes Kernel and user space drivers, shader compilers, and runtime systems. You’ll code features, fix bugs, and optimize performance in real-world applications

About you

We welcome students who are curious about coding features, fix bugs, and optimise performance in real-world applications.

Helpful skills include:

Problem-solving and collaborative mindset
Equally valuable is creativity and the ability to collaborate with engineers across domains.

What could you be doing?

Build features in the GPU’s user space or kernel drivers
Low-level programming in the GPU’s firmware
Profile runtimes to optimize performance
Build infrastructure to power development
Develop shader compiler features
Driver and compiler feature development
Debugging runtime issues in real workloads
Optimization of GPU software stacks

Why join us?

Software roles in GPU Engineering let you work directly with drivers, compilers, and runtimes that billions of devices rely on. Bring Arm GPU designs to life in software, enabling games, apps, and AI frameworks to run efficiently.

Central Engineering (CE) - Machine Learning (ML)

Location: Manchester

Core Skills

Python or C/C++ programming skills
Interest in ML workflows, frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, vLLM, TensorFlow) and tools
Motivation to understand how SW optimization delivers performance and power efficiency
Curiosity about compilers or embedded ML deployment

Software teams in ML Engineering focus on making AI frameworks achieve their potential on Arm IPs. They work on compilers, libraries, tools, runtimes, embedded ML deployments and supporting infrastructure; they deliver high-performance for AI workloads from cloud compute to tiny edge devices.

About you

We welcome students who are curious, enjoy problem-solving, and can collaborate with engineers across domains.

Helpful skills include:

A background in computational or numerate subjects
Experience in Linux development
Problem-solving and teamwork mindset

What could you be doing?

Contribute to core software that accelerates machine learning workloads
Work alongside experienced engineers on real-world problems
Be a part of the development of open source software that directly impacts the ML developer ecosystem
Optimizing ML frameworks and libraries for Arm IPs
Compiler/runtime/tools enhancements for AI workloads
CI/CD automation for ML pipelines.

Why join us?

Software roles in ML Engineering let you improve the tools and frameworks that power AI across billions of devices from the cloud to the edge.

Central Engineering (CE) - Systems

Location: Manchester, Sheffield

Core Skills

Python (programming)
Verilog/VHDL (hardware design)
Experience of modeling tools, QEMU, or FPGA boards

The Arm Systems teams focus on the infrastructure that makes modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) possible. We design, simulate, and validate everything that connects processors into a working system:

Automation and debugging: Creating tools and flows that make SoCs easier to configure and test.
Imaging and security: Building imaging pipelines and trusted computing features.
IP Design and implementation: Designing digital logic, memory systems, and interconnects, and taking them through to silicon.
Modeling and simulation: Using emulation and simulation to predict chip behavior before silicon is built.
Verification and validation: Ensuring Arm IP works as intended, from individual blocks to whole systems.

Your work will help build and secure the core systems that power next-generation devices—from high-performance servers to the smallest IoT sensors.

About you

We’re looking for students who are analytical, detail-focused, and curious about how hardware and software work together. Systems roles cover a wide range of skills, so there’s a place for you whether you enjoy coding, debugging, or building hardware models.

Helpful starting points might be:

Automation and debugging: Python scripting, robotics clubs, debug projects.
Imaging and security: Computer vision (OpenCV), embedded security coursework, security hackathons.
IP design and implementation: Digital logic coursework, Verilog/VHDL, FPGA or SoC projects.

Most importantly, bring curiosity and persistence. You’ll be supported by experienced engineers, so you can focus on learning and developing your skills while making a real contribution.

Central Engineering (CE) - Systems

What could you be doing?

You’ll join a real project team and take on meaningful tasks such as:

Writing scripts and contributing to debug automation pipelines
Building and testing imaging or security components
Assisting with digital logic, hardware, memory systems, or interconnect features
Running performance simulations and analyzing results
Prototyping systems with modeling tools, QEMU, or FPGA boards
Developing testbenches and learning industry-standard verification methods (like UVM).

You’ll begin with supervised coding, simulation, or testbench development, but as your confidence grows you could progress to owning RTL features, validating imaging pipelines, or building full performance models.

Why join us?

Your work will help build and secure the core systems that power next-generation devices—from high-performance servers to the smallest IoT sensors.

Sales and Partner Enablement (SAPE)

Location: Cambridge

Core Skills

Curiosity, adaptability, and teamwork
Strong communication skills

The Arm Partner Enablement Group helps our customers succeed by providing timely, ground-breaking knowledge through innovative services. The team works closely with Arm engineers to support customers in developing and deploying hardware and software applications using Arm-based solutions.

Our work includes supporting IPs (CPUs, GPUs, SystemsIP), development tools, and modeling technologies, ensuring customers can confidently build state-of-the-art devices. Partner Enablement combines technical depth with strong communication, bridging the gap between Arm engineering teams and the world’s leading semiconductor companies.

About you

We’re looking for students who enjoy combining technical skills with communication and collaboration.

Helpful starting points might be:

Strong communication and customer-facing skills, both written and spoken
Interest in working with global, distributed teams
For software-focused roles: interest in software development; experience with Java, Scala, or JavaScript is particularly helpful.

What could you be doing?

Provide fast, accurate answers to customer questions about Arm IP (CPUs, SystemsIP, GPUs, tools, and architectures) developing customer facing communication and advocacy
Create and deliver technical training material and documentation, both onsite and remotely
Problem solve in both hardware and software contexts
Assist with SoC design reviews and provide recommendations to customers.

Sales and Partner Enablement (SAPE)

Test IP before release and provide feedback to Arm design teams
Develop tools and techniques that make it easier to support customers
Create and update knowledge-base articles and application notes
Collaborate with global, distributed product teams to influence future IP features and improve customer experiences
Learn to understand Arm architecture, IP, and tools.

You’ll start with well-scoped tasks that combine technical development with customer interaction, building both your technical and communication skills along the way.

Why join us?

You’ll directly support customers who use Arm technology—ensuring their success, improving their experiences, and influencing the future of Arm IP. Your contributions will ripple across the industry, powering millions of devices worldwide.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Location: Cambridge

Core Skills

Embedded development and debug in C/C++
RTOS and build systems
Low level software interface with hardware
Hardware bring up and debug

IoT and AI are changing the world. Billions of intelligent IoT devices are transforming both human and digital decision making by automatically gathering and analyzing vast new sources of data. Iot simplifies software development, aligning around key IoT standards, and enables the secure, seamless deployment of edge-to-cloud solutions at scale. These advancements are helping to solve complex challenges and unlock new use cases and user experiences across smart home, city, healthcare, industrial, and retail sectors.

This role focuses on the embedded MCU subsystems found in larger edge AI applications, but also interacts with rest of the system, including Linux, Python and various other tools and technologies. In collaboration with various internal upstream engineering teams, you will build and optimize working ML examples running on Arm Cortex MCU and Ethos NPUs.

These examples will be documented and published to the developer community, as well as being used for training material.

About you

We welcome applicants who are curious, enjoy problem-solving, have some experience and knowledge with embedded MCU systems, and can collaborate with engineers across domains.

Helpful skills include:

Strong coding skills (C/C++, python)
Familiarity RTOS, build systems
A background in hardware and low level software
Experience in a Linux environment
Problem-solving and teamwork mindset

Internet of Things (IoT)

What could you be doing?

Creating MCU examples for use in a broad variety of ML/Edge AI applications
Documenting and publishing examples to the developer community
Working with an experienced engineers driving the development of edge AI
Optimizing embedded system for running ML workloads
Driving software and tooling enhancements
Improving developer experiences

Why join us?

Application Engineering roles in IoT enable you to play a part in the next generation of AI applications at the edge, guiding the improvement of Arm IP, developer kits, tooling, and user workflows. Improve the developer experience of edge AI, by driving efficient, performant, and well documented examples.

Strategy and Ecosystems (STE)

Location: Cambridge, Manchester

Core Skills

Interest in developer tooling
TypeScript, Go, Python
Desktop or Web-Based Applications
A passion to learn and innovate

We enable application and platform developers to quickly and easily take full advantage of Arm’s latest technologies on day one. We ensure that Arm is the platform of choice for AI and Application developers because they trust us to enable the best possible user-experiences at the right cost, performance, and efficiency for their businesses.

We do this by focussing on three core themes:

· Performance & Efficiency

· Ecosystem Integration

· AI & Computation

About you

We want curious, passionate problem-solvers who enjoy collaboration and learning. You don’t need to tick every technical box — strong fundamentals and enthusiasm matter most.

Helpful skills include previous exposure to high-level languages and software development paradigms such as source control and peer reviews.
An interest in user-focused designs or experience with open-source software. Soft skills such as creativity, teamwork, and curiosity are equally valued.

Many grads start with classroom knowledge but quickly grow into confident engineers with support and mentorship and a self-start attitude.

Strategy and Ecosystems (STE)

What could you be doing?

You’ll work on real projects from day one. Typical tasks include:

Designing and delivering new features in an existing codebase
Writing relevant tests to ensure demonstrable quality
Working with your team to review and merge your changes
Engaging in the delivery process refinement
Create next-gen developer products
Design engaging user experiences
Simplify working with Arm hardware
Streamline ML/AI workflows

You’ll gain experience working on industry products which have a wide impact on the ecosystem for partners and end users alike. You will be mentored through your journey as you build your skills and grow your career.

Why join us?

You will work on teams delivering greenfield tools with approachable user workflows to support developers on Arm hardware. The context crosses general workloads as well as ML/AI inference and includes development, deployment, debugging and performance profiling capabilities. Help shape the next generation of innovative developer tooling at Arm to help users achieve their goals and deliver the greatest impact!