Senior CPU & SoC Verification Engineer - Cambridge Onsite

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

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Design Verification Engineer for a UK semiconductor leader to join a high-caliber team validating high‑performance CPUs and SoCs.

This permanent, onsite role is based in Cambridge. You will work with SOC Architects to prove correctness of micro‑architectures before release to millions of global users, delivering rigorous test and coverage plans.

You will build scalable verification environments and drive regressions, reporting progress with advanced metrics.

Qualifications

• Experience with CPU technologies including cache coherence, memory ordering, branch prediction, renaming, and speculative execution.
• Experience with RIS at Block and Subsystem levels.
• Proficient with simulators, waveform viewers, and formal proof tools.
• Knowledge of formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Validate high-level system requirements and micro-architectural concepts.
• Develop detailed test and coverage plans for CPU domains.
• Build scalable and portable verification environments with stimuli, checkers, assertions, trackers.
• Perform regressions and deep-dive debugging of test failures.
• Report progress using metrics like functional coverage and bug density.

Skills

CPU verification

Design verification

SystemVerilog

UVM

Test planning

Debugging

Tools

Simulators

Waveform viewers

Formal Proof Tools

Formal Verification tools

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Design Verification Engineer for a UK semiconductor leader to join a high-caliber team validating high‑performance CPUs and SoCs.

This permanent, onsite role is based in Cambridge. You will work with SOC Architects to prove correctness of micro‑architectures before release to millions of global users, delivering rigorous test and coverage plans.

You will build scalable verification environments and drive regressions, reporting progress with advanced metrics.