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Architecture & Technology Group (ATG) - Architecture

Architecture Technology Group (ATG) - Software

Central Engineering (CE) - Productivity Engineering (PE)

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

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

Central Engineering (CE) - Central Technology (CT)

Central Engineering (CE) - Machine Learning (ML)

Central Engineering (CE) - Software

Central Engineering (CE) - Systems

Sales and Partner Enablement (SAPE)

Architecture & Technology Group (ATG) - Architecture

Location: Cambridge

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 months)

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

Architects in ATG sit at the crossroads of research
and engineering. They test how future workloads interact with Arm hardware and software, exploring trade-offs in performance, energy efficiency, and scalability.

Architects don’t just answer, “can we build this?", but “should we build this?”. Their work ensures Arm’s roadmap is grounded in both vision and reality.

About you

We welcome students who are curious about system design and software-hardware interaction.

Helpful skills include:

Familiarity with modelling and simulation
Programming in C/C++ or Python
Equally valuable are creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to collaborate with engineers across domains.

What could you be doing?

Model architectural variants to explore performance
Analyse workloads to identify bottlenecks
Prototyping ideas in software or hardware models
Write technical publications on emerging trends
Present trade-off analyses to senior architects
Modelling and simulation of architectures
Workload and performance analysis across AI, cloud, and mobile
Systems-level thinking and trade-off exploration.

Why join us?

As an architect, you work at the frontier of “what if?” Your analyses, prototypes, and models inform decisions that ripple across the entire industry.

Architecture & Technology Group (ATG) - Software

Location: Cambridge

Roles Available

• Internships (3, 6, 12 months)

Core Skills

Programming in high-level languages like C/C++ or Python
Understanding of data structures and algorithms
Curiosity about computer systems and performance

Software in ATG provides the environment where new ideas are defined, tested and validated.

From lightweight scripts that drive experiments, to complex toolchains that model future systems, software underpins every exploration. It’s a blend of experimentation and engineering discipline — ensuring results are both innovative and rigorous.

About you

We welcome students who are curious about computer architecture.

Helpful skills include:

Strong programming in Python
Knowledge of operating systems or compilers
Familiarity with simulation, modelling, or workload analysis.

Equally valuable are creativity, problem-solving, and collaborating with engineers across domains.

What could you be doing?

Develop tools to support architecture development
Contribute to the management of architecture data definitions
Contribute to architecture modelling
Work with DevOps teams to support existing frameworks
Learn software development
Gain exposure to Arm architecture
Opportunity to work on complex problems and systems.

Why join us?

Software roles in ATG sit at the intersection of research and engineering. You’ll write code that shapes how tomorrow’s architecture information is consumed. Ensure Arm’s future architecture is supported by robust software foundations that enable innovation at scale.

Central Engineering (CE) - Productivity Engineering

Location: Cambridge

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 and 12 months)

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 Arm’s 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 organisations run and who enjoy problem-solving, analysis, and collaboration.

Helpful starting points might be:

Data analysis, statistics, or visualisation
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 programme 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 Arm’s 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

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 and 12 months)

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 & 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, analysing 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 & Verification: Digital logic projects, Verilog/VHDL, FPGA design, or building testbenches and testing parts of the CPU logic.
Performance Exploration: Running and modelling 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 optimisation.
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 optimise 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

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 and 12 months)

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 userspace drivers, shader compilers, and runtime systems. You’ll code features, fix bugs, and optimise 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 userspace or kernel drivers
Low-level programming in the GPU’s firmware
Profile runtimes to optimise performance
Build infrastructure to power development
Develop shader compiler features
Driver and compiler feature development
Debugging runtime issues in real workloads
Optimisation 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’s GPU designs to life in software, enabling games, apps, and AI frameworks to run efficiently.

Central Engineering (CE) – Central Technology (CT)

Location: Cambridge

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6, 12 months)

Core Skills

Programming preferably in C/C++ but also Python
Interest in graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenGL) or ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Curiosity about developer workflows and tooling

Software teams in CT ensure Arm’s future architecture is practical and usable. They develop many things including: GPU drivers, validate APIs, optimise ML deployments, and improve the platforms engineers rely on.

This is where hardware concepts meet real software environments.

About you

We welcome students who are curious about problem solving, and the ability to collaborate with engineers across domains.

Helpful skills include:

Strong coding in C/C++ or Python
Interest in system software
Interest in Computer Architecture
Problem-solving mindset and teamwork skills.

Equally valuable are creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to collaborate with engineers across domains.

What could you be doing?

Interns in CT Software may be:

Testing GPU drivers and contributing to APIs
Deploying ML workloads and profiling performance
Improving developer onboarding workflows
Building telemetry dashboards to support engineers
GPU driver and API development
ML software deployment and optimisation
Developer tooling & telemetry projects.

Why join us?

Software in CT bridges hardware design and real-world application. You may join teams working on drivers, ML stacks, and tools that realize Arm’s designs. Bridge hardware and software by making Arm’s future architectures usable, testable, and developer friendly.

Central Engineering (CE) - Machine Learning (ML)

Location: Cambridge, Manchester

Roles Available

Cambridge (3 months)
Manchester (3 and 12 months)

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
Optimising 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) - Software

Location: Cambridge, Manchester, Bristol

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 and 12 months)

Core Skills

We don’t have any specific requirements, but ideally:

Programming languages (such as C/C++, Python, Rust, Java)
Projects with Micro:bit, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, models

If you haven’t had this experience but are eager to learn, we’d still love to hear from you.

Our Software teams build the essential tools that bring Arm's architecture and IP to life. We develop compilers, debuggers, optimized libraries, and simulation models that developers worldwide use to create Arm-based products. Through extensive contributions to open-source projects and industry initiatives, we enable cutting-edge hardware capabilities and drive performance optimization across the Arm ecosystem.

Our projects span a wide range of domains:

Mobile: Android OS, ChromeOS
Infrastructure & Cloud Computing: Linux distributions, networking
Internet of Things (IoT)
Operating Systems: Linux, Zephyr, and power management technologies that make Arm unique
Automotive: system software and real-time OS for autonomous driving
Firmware & Security (Trusted Firmware)
Compilers & Runtimes: GNU GCC, LLVM, JIT compilers for Java, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Rust
Debuggers & Tools: tracing, profiling, AI
Optimized Libraries: Codecs, BLAS, 5G, Cryptography, Computer vision
Models: simulating processors and complete SoCs before silicon is available
Complete SW stack solutions
DevOps & Continuous Automation.

We work in small to medium-sized teams. As an intern, you will learn best practices in software development while gaining a deep understanding of hardware—not just processors, how software interacts with complete system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. We call this low-level or embedded software development.

Central Engineering (CE) - Software

About you

We're seeking passionate, innovative minds who love solving complex problems through code. Whether you're studying Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, we want to hear from you. We actively welcome candidates from diverse academic backgrounds—our team thrives with contributors who studied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Biology, Mathematics, and beyond, bringing fresh perspectives to technical challenges.

What could you be doing?

As part of a team, you’ll be given real problems to solve that match your skills while challenging you to learn new tools, languages, codebases, or APIs.

You will participate in different aspects of commercial or open-source software development and will gain experience across the full software development cycle - from design and implementation to testing and support - with plenty of guidance from your team and a dedicated mentor.

Because we work closely with open-source communities such as Linux and Android, your work will be highly collaborative, both inside and outside Arm.

Why join us?

We treat interns as engineers:

You’ll have ownership of tasks within your project
Your ideas will be heard and valued
You’ll participate in knowledge-sharing sessions
You’ll be encouraged to work independently, with support from your team whenever needed
You may even have the chance to upstream your code.

This is an opportunity not just to learn from experts, but to make a real impact on Arm’s ecosystem.

Central Engineering (CE) - Systems

Location: Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield

Roles Available

• Internships (3, 6, 12 months)

Core Skills

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

Arm’s 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 & Debugging: Creating tools and flows that make SoCs easier to configure and test.
Imaging & Security: Building imaging pipelines and trusted computing features.
IP Design & Implementation: Designing digital logic, memory systems, and interconnects, and taking them through to silicon.
Modelling & Simulation: Using emulation and simulation to predict chip behaviour before silicon is built.
Verification & 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 & Debugging: Python scripting, robotics clubs, debug projects.
Imaging & Security: Computer vision (OpenCV), embedded security coursework, security hackathons.
IP Design & 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?

As an intern, 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 analysing results
Prototyping systems with modelling 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

Roles Available

Internships (3, 6 and 12 months)

Core Skills

Curiosity, adaptability and teamwork
Strong communication skills

Arm’s 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 modelling technologies, ensuring customers can confidently build state-of-the-art devices. Partner Enablement combines technical depth with strong communication, bridging the gap between Arm’s 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’s 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’s IP. Your contributions will ripple across the industry, powering millions of devices worldwide.