Arm

Arm runs three Emerging Talent tracks, structured around degree pathway:

• Apprenticeships (UK only, Sheffield, Manchester, and Cambridge offices): Levels 4 to 6 including degree apprenticeships, a 20% academic / 80% on-the-job split, typically requiring three A-levels or equivalent at entry.
• Internships: around 380 interns each year across 20 locations in 10 countries – Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.
• Graduates: a two-year program across 21 locations in 11 countries, open to bachelor's, master's, and PhD candidates, with a UK-hosted annual Global Graduate Conference and twice-yearly compensation reviews.

For a candidate with right-to-work in the UK, the apprenticeship and graduate tracks are functionally substitutable degree-pathway choices. For an international applicant without UK status the apprenticeship is closed, but the graduate program across 11 countries opens a wider geographic choice – sponsorship eligibility therefore determines which track is actually available before fit.

The UK apprenticeship track sits outside this scope and is not sponsored. For non-UK locations the firm does not publish a single sponsorship statement; visa policy follows the local job description on the careers portal. A candidate without UK work rights should treat the UK graduate or internship route as a sponsorship gate cleared at the firm level – and the apprenticeship as effectively closed – and check each specific non-UK role description for its local position.

The firm historically licensed IP rather than manufacturing finished silicon, and in March 2026 it shipped its first complete production chip (the AGI CPU), opening a new hardware-engineering track alongside the existing IP business. For an early-career engineer, the implication is unusual scale-of-deployment leverage: work done at the architecture or IP level reaches almost every smartphone and a growing share of hyperscaler compute, and the firm's recent move into shipped silicon expands the kinds of hardware-engineering roles available rather than narrowing them.