CPU Design Verification Engineer - (Cambridge, UK)

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

Job summary

European Tech Recruit in Cambridge, UK is seeking a Senior CPU Design Verification Engineer to join our semiconductor client’s CPU team. You will validate micro-architectures and ensure launch readiness for end products.

You will collaborate with CPU and SOC architects, develop detailed verification plans, environments, and testbenches, and lead a small team of verification engineers to deliver robust results with formal methods where applicable.

Qualifications

• Expert in micro-processor verification concepts and architectures.
• Experience leading a small verification team.
• Strong knowledge of memory ordering, cache coherence, prefetching, branch prediction.
• Experience with formal, assertions, silicon bring up.
• Proficient in writing test plans, portable testbenches, transactors, and assembly code.
• Experience with various verification methodologies and tools.

Responsibilities

• Understand concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed test and coverage plans.
• Develop verification methodology and reusable environments.
• Create verification environments with stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage.
• Develop testbenches and plans for your functional domain.
• Execute plans, bring-up, run regressions, debug failures.
• Track DV progress using bugs and coverage metrics.

Skills

Micro-processor verification

RIS testing

Team leadership

Formal methods

Testbench development

Verification tools & techniques

Tools

Simulators

Waveform viewers

Formal Proof Tools

Gate-level Simulation

Coverage analysis

Job description

CPU Design Verification Engineer

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Design Verification Engineer to join a global leader in semiconductors, working alongside their CPU Team in Cambridge (UK).

About the Role

As a CPU Verification Engineer, Senior 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

• 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.

What are we looking for?

• 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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