Verification Engineer | Core Engineering

P2P; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Travel and relocation support

Competitive pension scheme

Life assurance and income protection

Paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Jump Trading Group seeks an ASIC Verification Engineer to translate complex requirements into robust tests and sign-off criteria.

You will build scalable environments, develop reusable components, and drive thorough verification across architecture, RTL, software, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Experience verifying complex ASIC/SoC projects.
• Proven ability to plan verification, build environments, and sign-off.
• Strong programming skills in SystemVerilog and Python.

Responsibilities

• Own verification environments from planning to sign-off.
• Build reusable testbenches, reference models, and scoreboards.
• Drive verification closure using coverage and regression results.
• Collaborate to diagnose root causes and resolve ambiguities.
• Balance verification depth with delivery timelines.
• Develop automation and CI/ regression tooling.
• Contribute verification perspective in design reviews.

Skills

Verification experience

SystemVerilog

Python

C/C++

Digital design principles

Debugging

Requirements to test

Education

Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Science or Mathematics or Physics degree

Tools

UVM

cocotb

assertion-based verification

formal verification tools

front-end ASIC tooling

verification infrastructure

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software & hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

We are looking for an ASIC Verification Engineer who combines strong technical skills with pragmatic problem-solving, curiosity, and a drive to deliver on complex projects. Verification is integral to our design process. You’ll work across architecture, RTL design, software, implementation, and infrastructure, helping shape how we build and validate our platforms. Working closely with designers and trading teams, you’ll translate demanding real-world requirements into robust, thoroughly verified designs.

What You'll Do:

• Own verification environments from planning through sign-off. Translate architectural and system requirements into verification strategies, test plans, and measurable completion criteria for complex projects
• Build scalable verification environments. Develop reusable testbenches, reference models, stimulus, scoreboards and other verification components
• Drive verification closure. Use coverage, assertions, regression results, assess risk and build confidence in our designs
• Solve challenging hardware and software problems. Collaborate across disciplines to isolate root causes, resolve spec ambiguities, and drive issues to closure
• Make sound engineering trade-offs. Balance verification depth, development effort, and delivery timelines while delivering right first-time silicon
• Improve productivity. Develop automation, CI, regression infrastructure, and tooling that make verification faster, more reliable, and lower maintenance
• Contribute beyond verification. Bring a verification perspective to architecture and design reviews

Skills You’ll Need:

• At least 3 years of design verification experience, including work on complex ASIC/SoC projects
• Experience creating and executing verification plans, building verification environments, and driving metric-based sign-off
• Strong programming and HDL development skills, including SystemVerilog and Python, with proficiency in C/C++
• A solid understanding of digital design principles and the ability to reason about hardware behavior, corner cases, and trade-offs
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software, with a systematic approach to diagnosing complex failures
• The ability to turn high-level or evolving requirements into clear, testable specifications
• A collaborative and reliable approach, clear communication, accountability for your deliverables and ability to give and take constructive criticism
• A degree in electrical or electronic engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related discipline
• Bonus Points:
  • Experience with UVM, cocotb, or assertion-based verification
  • Experience with formal verification tools and techniques
  • Experience developing front-end ASIC tooling, verification infrastructure, or engineering workflows.
  • Familiarity with processor architectures, assembly language, and embedded software development.

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits