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Perhaps you've heard of us, perhaps not. Look at your smartphone, digital camera, smart TV, gaming console, or your saved images in the cloud. Guess what, you’ve already got an Arm-based device or are connected to one!

Get a buzz out of learning new technologies? Do you enjoy writing? Arm’s Information Developers and Technical writers work with exciting and results-oriented projects that really impact the technological world. The fresh ideas of undergraduates and people early in their careers can help shape these technologies. People at Arm are diverse, dedicated, and innovative. We'd like you to bring your passion and curiosity to our company, and share your ideas! In return, we'll provide training, coaching, and a challenging environment to start your career. You'll be exposed to technologies that will be the foundation for innovative products for years to come! At Arm, we encourage our undergraduates to strengthen their proficiencies while advancing their education. You can build a career as unique as you are, with your team mates and leaders right there supporting you, even when the world throws us curveballs. 

Arm Information Developers and Technical Writers create different types of technical content, including web content, specifications, tutorials, and multimedia. This content helps our customers and ecosystems to design and develop with Arm products and solutions.

Arm has a range of vacancies for enthusiastic undergraduates with ambitions in writing and technology. You will be part of a larger community of writers, who can guide, train, and give suggestions. We nurture our people, we provide one-to-ones, and a collaborative and friendly working environment. Our leaders are open to sharing their career experiences and also giving feedback for your development.

Arm is seeking highly motivated and creative undergraduates to join our Cambridge, Manchester, and Sheffield-based teams working on state-of-the-art software.

In your cover letter please specify which year you will be graduating.

Our software supports a whole ecosystem, from embedded firmware through operating system kernels, compilers, libraries, developer tools, applications, and web technologies. We work in the open-source community, build tools to support our internal processes, and create commercial software products. Whatever your focus in software engineering, Arm will help you to grow your skills whilst working on projects that drive technology forward for our billions of end-users.[

Part Time Undergraduate (with first year as full-time placement) - Arm Education and Research Enablement Development Engineer

Arm has fuelled the smartphone revolution by creating clever compute power that fits in your pocket. Would you like to be part of the next revolution? Our programme is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute.

About Arm and Arm Education

As the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology, Arm provides efficient, low-power chip intelligence making affordable, easy-to-use electronic innovations come to life. Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system IP, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries.

The Arm Education and Research Enablement offers high quality teaching and training materials to universities worldwide, and we are now seeking a Part Time Undergraduate to work with us in developing our offer. Your work will involve creating courseware to aid teaching based on Arm and partner technologies, as well as supporting technical customer inquiries. You will also develop software tools for automation, and work with internal and external partners to guarantee accurate legal and quality standards.

Arm's Machine Learning Group is seeking for a highly motivated and creative Graduate Software Engineer to join the Cambridge-based applied ML team.

From research, to proof-of-concept development, to deployment on ARM IPs, joining this team, would be a phenomenal opportunity to contribute to the full life-cycle of machine learning projects and understand how state-of-the-art machine learning is used to solve real word problems.

Working closely with field experts in a truly multi-discipline environment, you will have the chance to explore existing or build new machine learning techniques, while helping unpick the complex world of use-cases that are applied on high end mobile phones, TVs, and laptops.

About the role

Your role would be to understand, develope and implement these use case, collaborating with Arm's system architects, and working with our marketing groups to ensure multiple Arm products are molded to work well for machine learning. Also, experience deploying inference in a mobile or embedded environment would be ideal. Knowledge of the theory and concepts involved in ML is also needed, so fair comparisons of different approaches can be made.

As an in depth technical role, you will need to understand the complex applications you analyse in detail and communicate them in their simplest form to help include them in product designs, where you will be able to influence both IP and system architecture.

The SPE (Sales and Partner Enablement) Infrastructure team at Arm is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic graduate to join our team based in Cambridge with an ambition to become a crucial member of the team.

We combine people, technology and domain specific knowledge to craft tools, services and infrastructure for Arm workforce that improve their productivity. It can be challenging at times, but there are many opportunities for people who take pride in, and enjoy developing these services and systems to make a real difference. 

You will join our established team in working closely with the Sales, Technical Communications and the Arm customer support team to provide them with the tools they need to ensure the success of Arm's partners.

The Role

You will have a chance to work across a range of systems, services and tools, focusing on developing, maintaining, and running the continuous integration and testing infrastructure of our tools. This will include bespoke and third-party solutions. You will be adept at scripting, designing automated tests, and have a track record of picking up and working with different technologies, for example:

• XML, DITA CMS
• XSLT
• XPath
• JSON, YAML, Markdown
• Java
• The Document Object Model
• Systems integration using REST APIs
• Jenkins
• Azure Cloud

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

As a key member of a small team of engineers, you will engage with team leadership, project management, and other teams in Arm to deliver high-impact improvements and new functionality to our existing tools and code infrastructure. We use CI / CD pipelines to accommodate auto-generated documentation and varied working practises of our documentation teams across Arm, as well as more traditional CMS offerings. Your primary focus will be on the continuous integration and testing infrastructure, but you will contribute to all aspects of software development within the team; you will get involved in developing / supporting the tools used by the Sales and Application Engineering teams, Linux system administration and technical consulting with other teams in Arm to support requirement and solution definition.

Arm’s technology is the foundational intelligence in over 100 billion silicon chips and is fundamental to enabling dynamic new markets including Hyperscale Computing, Virtual Reality, Autonomous Vehicles. It is at the heart of hot technology areas such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, to name but a few - but is very cool!

Are you the one that always has a plan? Do your friends look to you to rally everyone towards a common goal? Do you always have a checklist? Perhaps you planned and executed that last big event at college?

If you thought yes to any of these questions, you may be in luck!

Several Arm groups are searching for a Graduate Project Manager to join their Project Management teams.

Job Purpose

Effective project management is central to successful delivery within Arm. The key purpose of the Project Management Graduate role is to support the team of project managers and in return you will have the opportunity to learn from an immensely experienced community. As a Project Manager at Arm, you will ensure good quality and timely delivery of products that form the basis of a huge number of pervasive digital electronics products, including but not limited to your mobile phone. You will work with and share practical knowledge from multiple highly skilled Project Managers delivering products across multiple company locations and time-zones.

• The successful candidate will be a great teammate and have an ability to network, multi-task, plan and communicate effectively to get results.
• We're looking for a positive, can-do character, be robust and keen to accept new challenges.
• Our ideal candidate is someone who can see through the detail, address the real issues and get things done.
• Ideally you will be able to demonstrate a love of technology and a desire to develop a career in project management. Previous experience of leading projects is not a must.

We value our graduates and take every effort to help you move closer to your career goals. During this assignment, you will gain valuable skills in communication, project management fundamentals and a deeper understanding of how things really get done in a world-class technology company. You will also learn how to work in a professional environment and have ample opportunity to network with professionals in various roles.

This role will be based at Arm’s corporate headquarters in the historic city of Cambridge, UK, at its largest engineering centre, giving the chance to be surrounded by world-leading authorities and work with some of the very best people anywhere.

Education & Qualifications

A university degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or Project Management background is desired, although other degrees would be considered if there is applicable experience.

Accountabilities

• Assist project managers with project activities, for example stakeholder-management, risk analysis, scoping, planning, controlling projects and status reporting.
• Aid project management with provision of monthly metrics & trends, to be used for information-led decisions to drive our performance and efficiency
• Work closely with the Project Management Office to improve project management reports and processes and to be involved in and ultimately lead change initiatives that mature the way Arm delivers projects
• Facilitate projects with compliance to the organisation’s identified health-check criteria

Required Skills & Experience

• Excellent networking and interpersonal skills
• Highly organised and reliable, shown either during university or in personal life
• Thorough, with excellent attention to detail
• Problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Active listener, able to interpret and play back business partner requirements
• Highly engaged and able to work individually and as part of a team

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Technical background, either through formal training or as hobbyist
• An understanding of hardware / software design
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence would be a bonus
• Familiarity with project management tools e.g. Microsoft Project

About Central Engineering Open Source Software Group

Our CE Open Source Software team contributes to some of the most ground-breaking global software development communities, across all layers of the software stack from the lowest levels of firmware to higher level projects that are rethinking the application of software technology for entire industries. The group provides Reference Data Platforms across a variety of market segments (Infrastructure, Mobile, Internet of Things, Autonomous) to help our partners build excellent systems quickly. CE-OSS contributes to the key open source software projects such as the Linux Kernel, Trusted Firmware and the Android Open Source Project to ensure that Arm systems are enabled and performant in the eco-system.

About the role

We are looking for enthusiastic Graduate Electronics or Embedded System Engineer to join Arm’s Hardware Platform team, who are working at the forefront of embedded design based around Arm IP products. We are responsible for

• Designing and releasing the latest Arm IP technologies in FPGA image, enabling pre-silicon software and ecosystem development, reducing time to market.
• Creating physical hardware development platforms, based around Arm’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.

If you’re interested in:

• The potential to work on all aspects of product development, from specification to customer release.
• Eager to learn, a willingness to work across disciplines.
• The challenges of bringing up a new development board.
•  

Creating and validating Verilog RTL design in FPGA.

• Gaining a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance.
• Working alongside many other teams including system architects, CPU / System IP designers, physical chip layout / packaging engineers.
• Interaction with Arm’s partners and customers both through the support organisation and directly.

Then we have a role for you!

What will I be accountable for?

As a Graduate, you will be placed in a development team at Arm’s offices in Cambridge, UK where you will have a mentor, and be able to get to grips with the problems ranging across many hardware and software areas.  You will be working across all aspects of the product lifecycle whilst being supported by and learning from the rest of the team.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Are you passionate about setting new standards in physical implementation? Are you interested in working for one of the most successful IP design companies in the world? Do you want to take part in designing the next groundbreaking GPU?

This is a rare opportunity for you to become a part of the Arm GPU group. The GPU group is at the forefront of advanced GPU IP products for the consumer, wireless and automotive infotainment markets. You will join an international team of hardworking engineers working together to remain on the state of the art of IP and SoC development techniques. This successful team has been central to the development of recent graphics processors.

In this role your directive will be to influence RTL development whilst innovating, crafting and deploying the latest implementation techniques on live projects. You will provide the quality support that our customers desire and collaborate with them to develop the best products that help influence the world, and you will have the opportunity to drive EDA vendors on leading-edge processes (eg. 7nm FinFET) whilst pushing the boundaries of power efficiency and influencing physical library development.

A wide range of learning opportunities and challenges will be available. You will also be given the opportunity, if desired, to travel and work with our other teams.

Location

This opportunity is based in Cambridge (UK)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Our Graduate Linux Analyst will be responsible for follow-the-sun global operations and management of the Linux Platforms as well as project involvement.

Working closely with team leads, team managers, project managers, and engineering teams across Global Infrastructure & Platforms (GI&P) infrastructure domains, the Graduate Linux Analyst will be a key contributor in maintaining various flavour of OS, Infrastructure services and hardware.

You’ll need to bring a positive team player, enthusiastic, self-starter and flexible attitude in applying different techniques to help drive successful outcomes. You are also expected to bring fresh thinking and ideas, inspired by other successful programs you have part of. You should be an excellent communicator with the passion and resilience to get things done!

What you will be accountable for:

You will collaborate with technical leaders and contributors as you provide contributions to common goals. Additional responsibilities includes:
• Responsible for maintenance and support of our Linux based servers on premise and in cloud
• Maintain and configure various Infrastructure services such as Sendmail, Postfix, LDAP, HApxory, DNS/DHCP, and other services.
• Maintain various server hardware such as Dell, HP and Fujitsu
• Troubleshoot and fix hardware and software issues with speed and accuracy as new ServiceNow tickets comes in
• Maintain documentation of the server infrastructure
• Other delegated system administration duties

About the Role
As an Imaging R&D Graduate, you will be joining the ISP team within Arm, which develops and designs image processing technology that is used in a range of applications including automobiles, security cameras, and drones. The algorithm development team is tasked with solving a variety of image processing problems, from denoise to demosaic, auto-exposure to motion compensation. Our algorithms must satisfy the competing demands of high image quality, and efficient, low-power hardware implementation.

This is an opportunity to contribute towards the next generation of imaging systems, for both human viewing and autonomous driving applications.

Why should you apply?

• You want to work in leading digital imaging technology.
• You have a keen interest in imaging or image processing, which you would like to develop into a career.
• You want to see tangible results from your work.
• You want to have the opportunity to learn from the best engineers and start a career in a leading imaging and vision technology group.

What will I be accountable for?

• Working with image quality experts to determine requirements for processing.
• Developing new image processing algorithms, often from early concept phase and typically in a mathematical modelling environment.
• Implementing novel algorithms, starting from a floating-point model
• Testing and benchmarking of the results, working closely with our image quality experts.
• Collaborating with the wider engineering team to arrive at an architecture and fixed-point model of your algorithm, optimized for hardware or software implementation

Job Description

Are you passionate about setting new standards in physical implementation? This is a rare opportunity to become a part of the Cambridge CPU implementation team. The CPU group defines, designs and validates Arm's processor IP - the brains inside billions of electronic devices.

As a physical implementation engineer, you will join the successful team that has enabled huge volumes of next-generation high-efficiency processors, including the hugely successful Cortex-A53, the most recent Cortex-A55 through to the smallest and most energy efficient Cortex-M0+ processors.

In this role your mandate will be to influence RTL development whilst innovating, crafting and deploying the latest implementation techniques - from RTL, thorough place and route to STA - on live projects. You will provide the quality support that our customers desire and collaborate with them to develop the best products that help influence the world, and you will have the opportunity to drive EDA vendors on leading-edge processes (eg. 7nm FinFET) whilst pushing the boundaries of power efficiency and influencing physical library development.

What things will you be responsible for

Our team is tightly integrated with the RTL design teams and this gives you an unrivalled opportunity to improve your knowledge of CPU microarchitecture. Your wide-ranging set of responsibilities will include:

• The physical implementation of Arm processors using the entire implementation flow from RTL through Place and Route to STA
• Investigating the trade-offs involved in CPU design
• Tackling complex challenges like low power and methodologies for improving the efficiency of implementation
• To understand, plan and address the life-cycle phases of engineering projects
• Working with the sales and marketing teams to support the launch of new cores
• Supporting our customers and enabling them to be successful in the world
• Collaborating with EDA vendors to extend the best in class results from our processors whilst focussing on the ideal user experience

About the role

We are looking for enthusiastic Graduate Electronics or Embedded System Engineer to join Arm’s Hardware Platform team, who are working at the forefront in the following embedded areas:

• Development and validation of physical hardware platforms, based around Arm’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs.
• Creating software to test Arm systems both in simulation and in hardware (FPGA & Silicon)
• Porting existing simulation/emulation RTL validation software to real hardware
• Create and maintain Build environments & Automation tooling to ensure we supply high quality products
• Software design and implementation of reference firmware for Arm processors and systems – for example working on the software to enable our cutting-edge CoreLink secure subsystems
• Software stack development to enable Arm IP. This includes implementing HALs, drivers, connectivity, security, power and control components
• Board support firmware using STM32 and LPC11 microcontrollers
• Operating system development (Linux, mbedOS, FreeRTOS, etc)
• Development of reference software and demos for Arm Partners to use and replicate in their own products.
• Support and maintenance

If you’re interested in:

• The potential to work on all aspects of product development, from specification to customer release.
• Eager to learn, willing to give anything a go.
• The challenges of bringing up a new development board.
• How to build, test and debug full software stacks on hardware that hasn’t yet been manufactured
• Gaining a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance
• Working alongside system hardware designers to develop the best platforms to support Arm’s partners

Then we have a role for you!

What will I be accountable for?

As a Graduate, you will be placed in a development team at Arm’s offices in Cambridge, UK where you will have a mentor, and be able to get to grips with the problems ranging across many software areas.  You will be working across all aspects of the software lifecycle whilst being supported by and learning from the rest of the team.  You will also be offered the opportunity to explore other teams within Arm during your first 12 months with us, as part of our Graduate Rotation programme.

Whilst a lot of our work does involve Open Source software, many tasks require working with development platforms, or simulated hardware environments where features are being developed and tested before the physical devices have been built, so the problems you will be expected to understand and solve are ones that are yet unknown to the general community.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

The Productivity Engineering group (PE) at ARM is responsible for ensuring our engineering teams have the tools and computational resources to succeed. PE is responsible for a range of best in class infrastructure elements for ensuring our designs meet our partners' needs, from maintaining ARM's compute cluster to deploying new design and verification methodologies.

Within PE, the Deployment Team is responsible for enabling all engineering teams with new capability improvements required to achieve the organizational change initiatives.

• Journey to Cloud – moving engineering workflows to cloud and onto Arm architecture hardware
• Machine Learning / Data Science to maximize verification compute efficiency
• Continuous Delivery for Hardware Engineering efficiency
• Machine Readable Specifications for Hardware Engineering efficiency

As a member of the centralized Deployment Team, you will develop expertise with the mechanics such that through a partnership with project teams you can deploy a turn key solution. The Deployment Team members need to be both capable engineers and good at working in partnership with other ARM engineering teams.

The activities for this role demand an enthusiastic candidate from either Computer Science or Electrical/Electronics Engineering background with a strong desire to constantly evolve a cross-disciplinary skill set, in particular:
• Design and development of workflow scripts, with result capture and visualization tools
• Collaboration with RTL design and verification engineers to create new point techniques
• Develop automation and flow abstraction methods to enable project team to focus on the application of new capabilities rather than the mechanics.

As a member of a small and dynamic team, you will be working alongside engineers at all our design centers and contributing to the CPU, GPU and interconnect IP at the heart of ARM's success.

Concurrency architecture verification engineer

Are you interested in concurrency, CPU design, and verification? Then we have just the opportunity for you.

Arm uses innovative tools [1] for modelling and reasoning about concurrency in our products. 

Those tools serve different purposes, such as: clarifying our architecture specification [2], communicating with our partners, and enabling verification of our CPU hardware designs.

This last point is at the intersection of architectural specification and CPU hardware design, which is where your role would be.

We seek to encourage interaction between those activities within Arm and beyond: by working hand in hand with architects and CPU verification teams to understand their requirements, you will improve our methodology and tools. You will also be in charge of inventing and prototyping new ways to verify pre-silicon designs.

This is an outstanding opportunity if you are interested in:

• developing open-source tools [3] which benefit the Arm ecosystem and wider communities such as language standard committees, compiler and kernel developers;
• furthering the understanding of an area that has been the subject of intense research in the last decade;
• demonstrating the impact of formal models on industrial products.

Our tools are written in Ocaml and C; knowing those languages would be ideal, as well as a working knowledge of Linux, git and RTL.

See also:

[1] https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/a-profile/memory-model-tool

[2] https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0487/latest/arm-architecture-reference-manual-armv8-for-armv8-a-architecture-profile

[3] http://diy.inria.fr

[4] https://github.com/herd/herdtools7/

Arm has a range of vacancies for enthusiastic graduates with a passion for embedded software development, Open Source software and CPU Architecture. If you have a software background and a willingness to learn, you will be considered for work in one of these areas:

• Software design and implementation of features for our reference Mali Graphics processors (enabling our next generation Mali mobile IPs for APIs such as GLES, Vulkan, OpenCL, EGL) on Android
• Compiler development using LLVM for GPGPU kernels
• Compiler development including open source compilation technology for e.g. Apache TVM targeting Arm's CPUs, GPUs and NPUs.
• Improvements and performance optimisations for Arm Compute Library and ArmNN.
• Model Conditioning and sophisticated machine language framework optimisations in frameworks like Tensorflow and Pytorch.
• Performance analysis of NPUs, GPUs or CPUs
• Arm Secure Firmware development
• Software stack development to enable Arm IP.
• Operating system development (Linux, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, mbedOS, etc)
• Verification of Arm CPUs using full-stack operating system software
• Development of Software Tools for CPU Verification using Random Instruction Generation
• Software optimisation (JIT compilers, Android, ChromeOS, …)
• Build environments & Automation tooling

If you have an interest in CPU, GPU or NPU architecture and you are passionate about software, whether it’s kernel, driver, application or tools development; If you’d like to know more about how hardware and software interact, then this is an outstanding opportunity for you!

What will I be accountable for?

As a Graduate, you will be placed in a development team at Arm’s offices in Cambridge, UK where you will have a dedicated mentor, and be able to get to grips with the problems ranging across many software areas. You will work across all aspects of the software lifecycle whilst being supported by and learning from the rest of the team.

Whilst a lot of our work does involve Open Source software, many tasks require working with development platforms, or simulated hardware environments where features are being developed and tested before the physical devices have been built, so the problems you will be encouraged to understand and pursue are ones that are yet unknown to the general community.

If you consider yourself creative, innovative, a problem solver and you would like to influence and contribute to defining the next-generation CPUs that will be used in billions of devices worldwide, you will enjoy working and developing your professional career with us.

We are looking for graduate engineers who are passionate about understanding the workloads of the future to join our CPU benchmarking team.

Our benchmarking team is in charge of interacting with product managers, partners, CPU leads and performance modelling leads to understand the most relevant applications industry will use in the future and help to characterise and reproduce them on cutting-edge environments ranging from simulation to emulation or FPGA. The team is also responsible for investigating novel techniques to facilitate the utilisation of benchmarks that are relentlessly growing in complexity and make them suitable for the exploration of next generation CPU cores and systems.

As part of the CPU team, we will collaborate to innovate and find engineering solutions to the challenges of tomorrow in areas like IoT, automotive, servers or mobile; we will make devices smarter and more useful to society. Your contributions will help to build new technology that will influence the lives of billions of people!

Graduate on CPU Benchmark Role at Arm

We have exciting opportunities in the CPU group, where you will be part of a highly motivated team that helps define new generations of mainstream processors.

You will have real responsibilities from day one and you will get support and mentorship from specialists that will help you succeed and develop your career. Through teamwork, training, and dedication to personal development, we ensure that every graduate matures to become a specialist in the field.

You will work in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment and will have the opportunity to work on different projects.

What will your role be?

• You will contribute to the definition of the next generation of Arm’s IP products, identifying and enabling new benchmarks, and proposing new insights on methodologies that could improve current practice in benchmark characterisation and simulation.
• Together with marketing, technical leads, modelling leads and partners we will align on applications that will represent market requirements for future products.
• You will propose, develop and maintain innovative ways of making relevant applications and benchmarks suitable for sophisticated simulation platforms.
• You will collaborate with technical leads, performance modelling engineers and designers while doing performance analysis on existing and future designs.
• Explore new methodologies and novel software techniques that will improve modelling efficiency.

Are you creative, innovative, and passionate about new technologies?

Would you like to help us continue deploying billions of successful devices around the world, many of them enabling safety critical environments such as automotive or robotics?

We are looking for outstanding graduates to be part of our STL (Software Test Library) development team within our CPU group in Cambridge, UK. As part of your responsibilities, you will develop safety-critical software (often written in assembly and C) tightly couple with the internals of CPU design. You will also identify and build creative hardware features inside the CPU that improve the effectiveness of our solutions for segments where safety is of paramount importance without negatively affecting the power, performance and/or area of the core.

STLs execute opportunistically when the hardware is not fully utilized and perform continuous in-depth hardware diagnostics while the system is in operation. It identifies and notifies about functional misbehaviors derived from permanent faults triggered by natural hardware wear-out, or other uncontrollable factors before they may translate into catastrophic system failures with undesirable and even dangerous consequences.

If you are passionate about understanding the interaction between hardware and software, have used some HDL language (Verilog or VHDL) and can program on assembly and/or C, this could be an excellent opportunity to start your career with an exciting challenge. We work on a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment that will motivate you to further improve your skills and also contribute and get deep knowledge on Arm CPU designs and development processes. Engineers with large experience in the field will coach you and help you navigate and learn the complexities of the CPU internals and the mechanisms to meet expectations on safety from emerging markets.

STL is a fundamental piece of the development strategy for sectors with strong safety requirements like automotive, health or robotics. Working with us, you are going to deeply influence and interact on the development of successful solutions for this sectors in conjunction with our multidisciplinary team.

We are an equal opportunity employer with an open culture and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Role Responsibilities

We have exciting opportunities in the CPU group for graduates, where you will become part of a highly motivated team that develops the STLs for Arm CPUs.

You will have real responsibilities from day one and you will get support and guidance from experts that will help you succeed and develop your career. Through teamwork, training, and dedication to personal development, we ensure that every graduate matures to become an expert in the field.

You will work in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment and will have the opportunity to work on different projects.

As a member of the team we will share the following responsibilities:

• We will define the STL design specifications, verification plan and the safety documents as per ISO26262 and IEC61508.
• We will build diagnostic software to target CPU sub-units like ALU, pre-fetchers, branch predictors, cache controllers, memory systems, etc.
• We will envision hardware design features aiming to improve STL effectiveness on ongoing and future CPU developments. We will also get along with the rest of the designers to implement them with minimum impact on area, performance and power.
• We will prove that the software as well as the STL-specific hardware features meet the specifications and work properly on different CPU configurations.
• We will generate the safety analysis of the STLs.

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President Barack Obama's address to the graduates of Morehouse College last week drew criticism and praise, not only for what he said but also for how he said it. Was he talking down to the graduates in pressing for personal responsibility? Does he whip out the "preacher" cadence for black audiences only? As graduates of HBCU's and other institutions go out into the world, what is the most useful message they need to hear?


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- Latoyia Edwards, anchor, New England Cable News
- Kim McLarin, author, Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood and Midlife
- Phillip Martin, senior reporter, 89.7 WGBH Radio
- Peniel Joseph, professor of history, Tufts University


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Autism: study published in "Nature" reveals that it is possible to reverse symptoms of the disease in adulthood - A team of American scientists and a Portuguese, Patricia Monteiro, investigated the SHANK3 gene, a gene implicated in autism, an incurable disease that affects about 70 million people worldwide. A study in which participated the Neurosciences and Cellular Biology Center (CNC), University of Coimbra (UC), published last week in the prestigious "Nature" *, reveals that it is possible to reverse some of the behaviors associated with autism in adulthood. SHANK3 gene under study A team of American scientists and a Portuguese, Patricia Monteiro, investigated the SHANK3 gene, a gene implicated in autism, an incurable disease that affects about 70 million people worldwide. In Portugal it is estimated that the prevalence of 1 case per 1,000 children of school age. In the USA, there has been a tenfold increase in the last 40 years.

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In Jasmine Williams' family, graduating from the University of Michigan is a rite of passage. Her parents met on the campus, and her older sister graduated from the school a few years ago. She remembers sitting bundled up in the family section for that graduation. "It was overwhelming to feel so many people that proud," she says, "I remember sitting there watching her, and that was probably the first time I was like, 'OK, yeah, I like this. I can't wait to do this.'

This year, Williams' own graduation will look a bit different. The main undergraduate ceremony will be all virtual, though the university has invited students to watch that ceremony from the football stadium on campus known as the Big House. There will be no family members in attendance, and students will be required to have a negative COVID-19 test result to enter.

"I think it's hard not to downplay it when it's reduced to a Zoom," says Williams. But come Saturday, she's planning on donning her cap and gown and heading to the stadium with friends. "Knowing that we are going to the Big House to watch together as a class makes everything way more enjoyable for the weekend; to be able to at least get some remnants of what I witnessed years ago with my sister." Her family plans to host a streaming party from their home in Detroit.

As an academic year like no other comes to an end, colleges and universities are celebrating their graduates in a variety of ways. Some schools, like the University of Idaho and Virginia Tech are hosting multiple smaller, in-person ceremonies to comply with social distancing mandates. Others, like Iowa State, are hosting large ceremonies in football stadiums and outdoor arenas. There's also a handful that are doing virtual-only again, like the University of Washington and Portland State University. At some schools, including the University of Michigan and Emmanuel College in Boston, in-person events are restricted to just graduates; family and friends have to watch from a livestream.

For lots of students, the effort to be in-person is greatly appreciated. "You work hard those four years, you dream of that day, getting to graduate in-person and walk across the stage," says Jamontrae Christmon, a graduating senior at Tennessee State University in Nashville. For most of the year he assumed graduation would be virtual. He even sent out his graduation announcements to friends and family — and left the date off. Weeks later, he learned TSU would actually hold a May 1st in-person ceremony in the football stadium.

"I haven't been sleeping much this week at all. I'm just happy. Excited," says Christmon.

But planning for an event in an ongoing public health emergency has proven to be stressful. Steve Bennett, the chief of staff for academic affairs at Syracuse University, has worked to create commencement ceremonies that are as close to a normal year as possible.

"This may be the single most challenging special event that our team has put together, maybe ever," explains Bennett. "And it's because we keep having to plan towards a moving target."

Syracuse's plan for graduation is to have multiple smaller commencement ceremonies in their stadium; everyone in attendance has to be fully vaccinated or show proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test. According to state guidance, the stadium can only reach 10 % capacity, so graduates are limited to two guests per person. Despite the restrictions, the team that planned the ceremonies is determined to make it one that the class of 2021 deserves.

"The students have been through a lot this year. Graduating seniors lost a number of student experiences due to pandemic conditions that are important to them," says Bennett. That's why having the in-person component was essential. "It was really important to the university, given [the seniors'] commitment to us, that we have a commitment to them."

At California Lutheran University, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., graduation will be celebrated as a drive-in style event at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Each graduate can bring one carful of people to the fairgrounds parking lot, which can accommodate up to 700 vehicles. Inspired by the city's drive-in concert events, there'll be a stage with speakers and a jumbo screen.

"That's ultimately what led us to our decision to have it at the fairgrounds. Since it's a drive-in and they're staying in their cars, they were allowed to bring family... that was just really important to us," says Karissa Oien, who works in academic affairs at California Lutheran University and is the lead organizer for the drive-in commencement. She's been planning the university's ceremonies for 13 years, and knows how important graduation can be — not just for students, but for those who helped them along the way as well.

"We wanted to have that moment again. Where the families can see their students cross the stage and be there with them."

Jamontrae Christmon, the graduating senior from Tennessee State University, will have his parents, an uncle and one of his sisters there with him at Hale Stadium. "It's just something about your parents being there," says Christmon, "you want to look into the audience and maybe see your parents and you hear them scream your name when they call your name to walk across the stage."

As the day gets closer, Christmon says he's been thinking about the moments of self-doubt he had along the way. "I could have easily said 'I'm not cut out for college' and just gave up, but I didn't." He says his family was a big part of that motivation.

"Not many in my family even attended college, let alone graduated. So this is a big deal," says Christmon. "To me it means I broke the cycle. And that's what they always wanted."

He expects his mother will cry, and likely, he will too.

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Writing a graduation speech is a tricky task. Should you be funny, or sincere? Tell a story — or offer advice? For Yusef Pierce, a graduating senior in California, the job of putting together his public address was a bit more challenging.

"Being inside, I can't really refer to other graduation speeches," Pierce says. He's speaking by phone from inside the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium-security prison in Norco. "I was just trying to come up with what sounded like a graduation speech."

He is the first person to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the Inside-Out program at Pitzer College, a liberal arts school outside Los Angeles. In a normal year, the school would bring traditional students by bus to the prison to take classes alongside the students who are in prison.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, those classes are happening online. Pierce shared his Zoom square with 10 other guys, all wearing the CRC's blue uniforms and seated at those classic classroom desks, where the chair and the table are attached. This spring, his classes included topics like feminism for men, microeconomics and mass incarceration.

In one of those classes on a recent evening this spring, professor Nigel Boyle goes around asking each student what they're looking forward to doing that week. Pierce replies: "I'm looking forward to doing a lot of homework!"

"Every professor wants a Yusef in your class," says Boyle, who leads the Inside-Out program and teaches Pierce's Wednesday night class about mass incarceration. "You want that student who's bright, does the work, but is also helping to bring along the others."

It was only natural then that Pierce would be one of the college's graduation speakers.

"We don't label the student speaker as a valedictorian," explains Boyle. "But it happens that Yusef has a 4.0, and he's got a really interesting story to tell."

Pierce is in his early 30s and is a bit of a nerd and a class leader. He also writes poetry and paints. "It is true that oppression often requires that individuals make themselves extraordinary in order to simply survive," reads his artist's statement in an online exhibit of his work. "My paintings are entire conversations on canvas."

Eventually, he says, he wants to be a college professor, working with formerly incarcerated students.

"So he wants my job," says Boyle, laughing, "and he'd be much better at it than I am."

Boyle serves as the academic adviser to all of the incarcerated students, and he has become a mentor to Pierce, navigating him through the graduation process. In one of the last classes of the semester, Boyle hosts an impromptu fashion show, wearing his own blue cap and gown, backing away from the camera to give the onlooking students a full view of his outfit.

The guys inside cheer and whistle. "Do a spin," one guy shouts. "Beautiful! Beautiful!" another yells.

As the cheering dies down, Boyle looks for Pierce on the screen. "He doesn't know this, so it may be a slight surprise," he tells the class, "but, Yusef, you will also be receiving these cords." He drapes dark orange cords around his shoulders. "These cords are for students who graduate with honors in their degrees. Congratulations, Yusef, you are going to graduate with honors."

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The story of how Yusef Pierce wound up in these college classes, wound up inside prison at all, starts with trauma. When he was a teen, his older brother was shot and killed. "He was murdered in the front yard of our home, right in front of my face," he explains, "and so I had to call my mom and let her know what had happened." All these years later, it's still something he doesn't like to talk about. He considered putting it in his graduation speech, but took it out, worried it might be too much for his mom to hear.

"It had a traumatic effect on all of us," Drochelle Pierce tells me over the phone, from her house in Victorville, Calif. She remembers a change in Yusef around that time.

"It was just kind of one thing after another. He got into a little bit of trouble. He allowed people that he associated with to kind of influence him in a direction that really wasn't him." Yusef finished high school, but in his early 20s he was arrested and convicted of armed robbery. Drochelle Pierce says she was beside herself when she learned his sentence would be nearly 20 years. "I tell you, honestly, I never envisioned that Yusef would ever go to prison. Never, never. Never."

A few months into Yusef's prison sentence, she wrote him a letter. "What's done is done," she wrote. "You, now more than ever, must diligently seek and obtain higher education."

It wasn't a new message. Education had always been at the center of her relationship with Yusef. When he was young, he remembers riding in the car with his mom, a sociology textbook open on his lap. "She wouldn't let me turn on the radio," he says. "She would make me read to her."

"Oh, I made [my kids] read everything," Drochelle Pierce says. "If they read it out loud, I knew they were reading it. That's the only way I would know that they were actually reading anything."

Today, the two talk on the phone nearly every day. "He was always a deep thinker," says Pierce. She knows she sounds like a typical proud mother, but she can't help it: "Yusef is very smart."

In California, college classes can shorten a prison sentence. So when the opportunity first arose for Yusef Pierce to take courses in prison, it felt like simply a means to an end. "I just want to get home sooner," he remembers joking with a friend at the time. "If they gave us time off for going to college, I would walk out of here with a Ph.D.!"

But by the time Pitzer College started offering classes for a bachelor's degree, Pierce found to his surprise that he really liked college.

"I loved it because it gave me validation," he says. "To know that somebody was reading my stuff and that somebody felt like the things that I was thinking about and writing were worth something. I got really addicted to that validation, and it just really turned me into an overachiever. And I just took class after class after class."

That drive paid off.

After writing and rewriting a number of drafts, on May 15 Pierce delivered his final graduation speech to hundreds of Pitzer graduates and their family members and friends. The content he landed on? That letter his mom sent him all those years ago.

"I realize now that I've saved this letter because it was meant for me way back then to share it with you all today," he says, dressed in his white cap and gown, draped in a kente stole, with the prison classroom where he has spent so much time in the background. "It reads, 'Dear son, I was so glad to see you Monday ...' "

As he reads the letter aloud, he gets to the part where his mother, a big poetry fan, included the lines from Invictus, a poem by William Ernest Henley. Pierce looks directly into the camera as he reads; he knows this part by heart.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Drochelle Pierce watched the speech on her laptop at home, with family gathered around. "We were all crying. We were just boohooing. It was just so sweet," she says.

The final line of the poem:

It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul.

"I love that so much," she says. "I sent that to my son because I wanted him to think in terms of 'OK, here you are now. What happens to you from this point going forward, it really depends on you.' "

She is proud of her son and inspired by him too. "Look what he did. He turned a bad situation into something very, very positive. Here he is, graduating with his degree."

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D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, pictured in 2019, is hoping to change how the justice system handles cases involving 16- and 17-year-olds who are charged as adults.; Credit: Claire Harbage/NPR

A new proposal from D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine could overhaul the way juveniles are charged as adults and offer greater opportunities for rehabilitation than a federal prison.

If passed, the proposal would impact people like Charlie Curtis, who was charged with armed robbery and sent to adult court at the age of 16 — a decision that he said left him confused and adrift.

Curtis said he had problems reading and writing back then, let alone asking the court to appoint him a lawyer. After his conviction, he spent years in a federal prison in New Jersey.

"It's a little bit of everything," Curtis said. "A little scary, a little nervous, you got to grow up real fast. You're not in the high school gym no more."

Curtis returned home when he was 22. It would be a while before he stabilized, got a good job driving a truck and started a family that grew to include three children. He now volunteers to help other young people leaving jail and prison — trying to offer the support he got too late.

What the legislation would change

NPR has learned Racine will introduce legislation in the D.C. Council Wednesday to ensure that 16- and 17-year-olds accused of certain crimes start in the family court system.

"Children should be treated like children, including 16- and 17-year-olds, notwithstanding the seriousness of their alleged offense," Racine said.

The proposed legislation would apply to teens charged with murder, first-degree sexual abuse, and armed robbery, among other crimes. Currently, the lead federal prosecutor in D.C. can file those kinds of cases directly in adult court — without any say from a judge — even if those defendants ultimately plead guilty to lesser charges.

D.C. has no federal prisons of its own, so young people convicted as adults can spend years in other states, at great distances from their families. The D.C. attorney general said the majority of underaged defendants charged as adults return home to the District before they are 21, but without the benefit of access to educational programs, vocational training and mentoring they could have received if their cases had been handled in the family courts.

"The adult system doesn't work that way," Racine said. "Federal Bureau of Prisons people will tell you the adult system is not made for kids."

Eduardo Ferrer, the policy director at the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Initiative, said research demonstrates charging young people in the adult system decreases public safety by making it more likely they'll break the law in the future. Most charging decisions in these cases in D.C. are made within a half a day, without the benefit of a longer review of the facts of the case and the background of the teenager, he said.

"The process in D.C. right now, because the U.S. Attorney's Office does not exercise discretion often in terms of keeping kids down in juvenile court, is more of a sledgehammer," Ferrer said. "What we really need is a scalpel."

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington and the Metropolitan Police Department did not return calls for comment about the proposal. But its supporters expect some resistance when it's ultimately considered by the City Council.

Ferrer pointed out that the legislation still leaves room for a judge to transfer a young person in D.C. into adult court if the judge has concerns about the ability for rehabilitation and worries about public safety. "The reality is that a young person still can be transferred to adult court," he said. "The difference is we're taking the time to get it right."

The potential impact

The vast majority — 93% — of the 16- and 17-year-olds who are charged as adults in D.C. are Black. One of them is the son of Keela Hailes. In 2008, he was charged with armed robbery. Hailes said she wasn't consulted about decisions about what was best for her son.

"It's like my son went from a 16-year-old to a 30-year-old overnight," Hailes said.

Her son was convicted and sent to federal prison in North Dakota, too far for her to visit regularly as she had done in the D.C. area. Her son, now 30 years old, is incarcerated again. Hailes said she wishes he would have had more options years ago — a chance for an education, and time spent in a juvenile facility instead of around adults in prison.

She said science suggests young people have less judgment and maturity because their brains are still developing. She thinks the new proposal will make a "huge difference" for juveniles in the legal system in the District.

The proposal is the latest in a series of steps Racine has taken to overhaul juvenile justice in D.C. He pushed the courts to stop shackling young defendants; started a restorative justice program for juveniles to meet with and make amends to victims; and worked to limit the ability of police to put handcuffs on most people under age 12.

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Women who might become pregnant need 400 micrograms of folic acid per day to reduce their risk of having a child with neural tube defects, according to the latest report on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) from the Institute of Medicine.

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A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine takes a comprehensive look at evidence on the human health effects of e-cigarettes.

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