It was offering the best course in the UK in the domain I wanted to do my masters in

What are your main responsibilities in your current role?
A typical day at work, for me, is laying out a chip design, as an Implementation Engineer. My main roles include, but not limiting to:

• Implementing a design in a hardware environment (but this is done by software visualisations)
•  Floorplanning what goes where on the chip (starting from logic gates, flops, memories and to every bit of wire connections)
• While keeping in mind that the design has to meet target area, power and frequency, in the real world
• Liaising with engineers from other departments, as every project requires multidisciplinary engineering.

Apart from the direct roles, I also aid and solve issues my colleagues are faced with. I also help in bringing new graduates upto speed with the work we do and also provide continual support to them. As an add on I am the Team Arm Champion for the Sheffield Arm Office. In this role, I head and manage all our volunteering/ community engagement/ educational outreach and fundraising initiatives, per year.

Please outline your career history/how did you get to where you are today?
I completed my Bachelors in Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, in the year 2016, from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. After my undergraduation, I joined as a Global Software Engineer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). However, I really wanted to do my Masters, for which I had started the process of in March 2016. As the application processes, both with the university and for visa, were a success, I resigned from my role in HPE and started prepping to catch a flight to Sheffield. I joined The University of Sheffield, in the same year, to start my Masters degree course, on a Student Visa (Tier 4). I then completed my Masters in Science (Eng), Advanced Control and Systems Engineering, in the year 2017 (formal graduation ceremony was in January 2018). And soon after completing my Masters dissertation, I joined Arm as a Graduate Implementation Engineer, in September 2017. This is when I applied, through my company, to convert my existing Student Visa (Tier 4) to a Skilled Worker Visa (Tier 2 General). Following which I have been working at Arm, on a Tier 2 Visa, since February 2018. I have progressed since to an Implementation Engineer and am looking forward to my current role and future progressions.

Why did you want to come to the University of Sheffield to study your chosen degree?
It was offering the best course in the UK in the domain I wanted to do my masters in, in terms of the course content and modules on offer.

What were your favourite things about/best memories of the University of Sheffield?
The friendly atmosphere!

Please explain how has your qualification and/or time at Sheffield helped you in your career?
It helped me to get me a job in a core electronics company which I had wanted to work in since starting my undergraduate degree.

What has been your greatest achievement to date?
Being part of a tape-out project, which is coming out in April 2021.