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

Qualcomm; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary bonus

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase

Pension scheme

Education assistance

Relocation/immigration support

Life and medical insurance

Well-being memberships

Bike purchase scheme

Employee clubs

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd in Cambridge is seeking a Senior CPU Verification Engineer to validate CPU and SOC micro-architectures. You will work with Chip Architects to ensure launch-readiness for the end product in a dynamic onsite team.

Responsibilities include developing verification plans and testbenches, creating scalable DV environments, running regressions, and reporting progress with Bugs and Coverage metrics. Strong leadership and RTL/verification experience are essential.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Work with CPU and SOC Architects to understand concepts and high-level system requirements.
• Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on Architecture and Micro-architecture.
• Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.
• Develop Verification environment with Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers and Coverage.
• Develop Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain.
• Execute Verification Plans including DV environment Bring-up and regressions, debug failures.
• Track and report DV progress using Bugs and Coverage metrics.

Skills

CPU verification

ASIC verification

Team leadership

Formal verification

Testbenches

Architecture knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Master's degree in Science/Engineering

PhD in Science/Engineering

Tools

Simulators

Coverage tools

Gate-level simulations

Waveform viewers

Formal tools

Transactors

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary

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

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• 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.

OR

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

OR

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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