CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit are partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cambridge seeking a Senior CPU Design Verification Engineer. You will validate CPU and SoC micro-architectures and lead verification activities across block/unit levels.

You will develop verification plans, create environments with stimuli, checkers, and assertions, and drive regressions to ensure launch readiness. Collaboration with chip architects is essential.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of micro-processor verification functions and architectures.
• Experience with RIS and block/unit level verification.
• Experience leading a small verification team.
• Knowledge of formal methods and silicon bring-up is helpful.
• Ability to work independently on a design block.

Responsibilities

• Understand CPU and SoC concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on Architecture.
• Create verification environment with stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage.
• Develop testbenches for your functional domain.
• Execute verification plans including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regressions, and debugging.
• Track DV progress using metrics such as bugs and coverage.

Skills

Micro-processor verification

RIS testing

Team leadership

Formal methods

Testbenches

Assembly code

Tools

Simulators

Waveform viewers

Formal proof 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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