Architecture (Computer Science) Internship

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Architecture (Computer Science) Internship

Our internship 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 the architecture group and our work

As a research group focussed on architecture, we work at the boundary of software and hardware; we analyse novel applications and use-cases to invent ways of improving their performance, security, efficiency, or ease of use. This can be through instruction set enhancements, memory system optimisation, or even ground-breaking alterations to the underlying micro-architecture of fundamental compute elements while also considering power efficiency, area, compiler targetability, and related objectives.

Are you passionate about dreaming up innovations that have the potential to change the future of compute? We are offering internships across the computer architecture stack, such as:

• Analysis and categorisation of new / novel applications through to the design of efficient instruction set and micro-architecture for handling these applications.
• Implications of upcoming byte-addressable, non-volatile memories, and other data storage technologies.
• Security, encryption, and integrity protection in the core, system, or memory hierarchy.
• Micro-architecture innovations enabling new generations of cores, caches, predictive structures, accelerators, and more.
• Compute-near-data abstractions, and data-movement-optimised memory hierarchies.
• Improving our formal verification methods, to be more efficient and more effective at finding bugs earlier in the design cycle.

Education

• Our interns typically pursue Masters or PhD degrees in engineering and science, most commonly Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics, but we encourage applications from any field of study if you are motivated and feel your unique skills are relevant to what we do.
• We will also consider your application if you are pursuing an undergraduate or bachelor's degree and have relevant project or work experience.

Skills and Experience

• Good knowledge of the architecture and micro-architecture of CPUs, GPUs, or accelerators, their memory subsystems, or other components in your chosen area of research
• Programming experience in C, C++, Python and / or another modern language like Rust, Golang, Swift, or others
• Strong research skills: analytical thinking, designing experiments, clear communication of complex ideas; may have published in an academic conference or journal

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Understanding of instruction set architecture and fundamentals of CPU micro-architecture
• Software workloads, benchmarking, and performance analysis with common performance profiling tools or simulators (e.g. gem5, simplescalar, dynamorio, pin)
• Experience of software-level parallelism and of memory consistency models and coherency protocols and how they are implemented
• Memory technologies such as DRAM, Flash, or emerging non-volatile memories
• Memory address translation, memory encryption and integrity protection
• Software or hardware verification using SMT solvers, such as Z3, CVC4, or similar

Our internships

We invite you to apply for an internship if your research interests align with ours and are enthusiastic about the type of work we do. As an Arm Research intern, you will get a first-hand view of how Arm crafts its technology and maintains an ecosystem of more than one thousand partners that have shipped over 170 billion leading-edge Arm-powered processors. We will work closely with you to develop an internship project that is tailored to your interests. Our internships are three months long with flexible start dates. We offer continuous support, feedback, and development opportunities as well as flexibility to decide how to complete project tasks.

You will work alongside experienced researchers within a specific team and also the wider research group doing real project tasks. We believe in developing talent for the future, so we seek to offer many of our interns a graduate position once they have finished their studies.

Please provide a cover note with your application; include some information about what you are interested in and the kind of projects you would like to work on. If you have a clear idea about the work you want to do, include it in your letter. It is okay not to be 100% sure! Tell us about your studies and what you enjoy, and we will try to find the right fit for you.

Arm Research recognizes that diverse and inclusive teams generate exceptional ideas and innovations critical to an outstanding research organization's success. We do not discriminate because of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About Arm

You know us. Or maybe you don’t. But that doesn’t change the fact we’re with you, morning, noon and night. If you have a smartphone, digital camera, digital TV, gaming console or a smart meter at home, you’ve already used an Arm powered product. Our advanced processor designs play a massive part in optimising the performance of 95% of all the world’s connected devices.

This means we’ve teamed up with almost all the biggest names in tech. Over 35 billion Arm technology-based chips (that’s 125 shipped every second) and the software driving them are in everything from the world’s fastest supercomputer to driverless car controls to revolutionary healthcare equipment. The sheer number of applications is why we’re one of the world’s biggest technology companies. Even if you don’t know our name, over 70% of the global population is using our tech every day.

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