CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit are partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cambridge to hire a CPU Design Verification Engineer. You will collaborate with chip architects to validate CPU and SOC micro-architectures, and you will develop testbenches, verification environments, and DV plans to ensure launch readiness.

You will lead a small team of verification engineers, drive scalable verification methodologies, and report DV progress with metrics and coverage.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of micro-processor verification functions and architectures.
• Experience leading a small verification team and writing portable testbenches.
• Familiar with RIS and verification across block to chip levels.

Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand concepts and requirements.
• Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on architecture and micro-architecture.
• Develop verification methodology for scalability and portability across environments.
• Develop verification environments including stimuli, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage.
• Develop verification plans and testbenches for the functional domain.
• Execute verification plans including bring-up, regressions, debugging, and feature verification.
• Track and report DV progress using bugs and coverage metrics.

Skills

CPU verification

Team leadership

Formal verification

Silicon bring up

Testbench development

Tools

Simulators

Waveform viewers

Formal Tools

Job description

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in Cambridge, who are looking for a talented CPU Design Verification Engineer to join their team.

In this role you will work with Chip Architects to validate the concepts of CPU and SOC level micro-architectures. You will work on a selected part of the CPU Design Verification to ensure that it functions to the standards of being launch ready for the end product.

Responsibilities as CPU Design Verification Engineer:

• Working with CPU and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements.


• Developing detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture.


• Developing Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.


• Developing Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers, and Coverage.


• Developing Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain.


• Executing Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures.


• Tracking and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage.

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of Micro-Processor Verification functions and Architectures, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management.


• Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness.


• Experience in leading a small team of Verification engineers performing CPU Verification.


• Advance techniques such as: Formal, Assertions, and Silicon bring up, is helpful.


• In-depth knowledge of Micro-processor functions, Architectures, and Micro-architectures.


• Experience in writing Test plans, portable Testbenches, Transactors, and Assembly code.


• Experience with different Verification Methodologies and Tools such as Simulators, Coverage collection, Gate-level Simulation, Waveform viewers, and Formal Proof Tools.


• Ability to develop and work independently on a Block/Unit of the design.

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