Senior Verification Engineer (IP/CPU/Systems) - Visas Supported - UK

European Tech Recruit; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Verification Engineer to join their dynamic team in Cambridge. This role offers the chance to take ownership of critical CPU project areas, ensuring high-quality verification standards. You'll be responsible for developing test plans and verification strategies, while also contributing to improvement initiatives across the verification community. If you have a strong background in hardware verification languages and a passion for semiconductor technology, this opportunity could be your next career move. Join a forward-thinking company and make a significant impact in the exciting field of semiconductor engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing verification environments for complex RTL designs.
• Understanding of end-to-end verification processes and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of CPU project verification methodology and test plans.
• Planning and coordinating tasks to meet quality goals.

Skills

SystemVerilog

Specman ‘e’

Verification methodologies (UVM)

C/C++

Computer architecture knowledge

Job description

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A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Verification Engineer to join a British semiconductor company at their site in either Cambridge or Manchester, UK.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of a specific area of a CPU project ranging from unit-level testbench development through to the overall verification methodology for a CPU project.
• Responsibility for producing test plans and verification strategies.
• Planning, tracking, and coordinating the tasks of you or your team to meet high quality goals at the planned time.
• Ensuring the quality of the verification work done is of the expected standard.
• Being part of verification improvement strategies across the CPU group and the wider verification community.
• Evaluating and determining causality of different issues throughout the verification process per project.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience in designing and implementing verification environments for complex RTL designs.
• Well-versed in the use of hardware verification languages e.g. SystemVerilog or Specman ‘e’.
• Understanding of end-to-end verification processes, from test plan creation through to verification closure.
• Ability to quickly understand and apply complex specification detail.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture, with an emphasis on pipelining, exception handling, memory systems.

'Nice to have' Skills and Experience:

• Verification methodologies such as UVM.
• Practical experience of working on microprocessor designs.
• In-depth understanding of memory protection, memory translation, vector processing in CPUs, exception and interrupt handling.
• Understanding of constrained random stimulus, the goals and general usefulness of different types of coverage in hardware, as well as checking methodologies and behavioral functional models.
• Knowledge of assembly language, and/or C/C++.

Visa support can be offered if required.

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Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology, Engineering, and Other

Industries

Semiconductor Manufacturing, Computer Hardware Manufacturing, and Software Development