CPU Design Verification Engineer (Senior level) - Cambridge, UK

Qualcomm Incorporated; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & bonus

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Stock purchase plan

Matching pension

Education assistance

Relocation support

Insurance (Life, Medical, Travel)

Well-being memberships

Bike scheme

Clubs & activities

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd in Cambridge is seeking a senior CPU verification engineer to validate CPU and SoC micro-architectures. Onsite 5 days a week, you will work with chip architects to ensure launch-ready verification.

You will develop verification plans, environments, and testbenches, lead a small team, and drive regressions while reporting DV progress with metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in Science/Engineering or related field with ASIC verification/validation experience.
• Proven ability to lead a small verification team and deliver launch-ready DV environments.
• Experience with CPU/SOC verification, test plans, and portable testbenches.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CPU/SoC architects to understand requirements.
• Develop verification plans and testbenches for functional domains.
• Create scalable verification environments with stimuli, checkers, assertions, and coverage.
• Execute plans, bring up DV environments, run regressions, and debug failures.
• Track progress using Bugs and Coverage metrics.

Skills

Micro-Processor verification

RIS testing

Team leadership

Formal methods

Assertions

Silicon bring-up

Testbenches

Transactors

Assembly coding

Verification tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Science/Engineering or related field

PhD in Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Simulators

Coverage tools

Gate-level simulation

Waveform viewers

Formal proof tools

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

About Us

Cambridge is Qualcomm's largest office in the UK, with about 400 team members including engineers, business strategists and support staff. From an engineering perspective, we have teams focussing on: RF and PMU analog design, digital design & verification, digital physical design, embedded software, packaging and post-silicon validation. Target products include: high performance CPUs and GPUs, ultra-low power IoT devices, and wearables such as smart glasses, smart watches and earbuds.

About the Role

Please note this role requires you to work onsite 5 days per week in our Cambridge office.

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.

What will you be doing?

• 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.

What's on Offer

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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