Verification Engineer | Trading Team

Jump Trading; West of England; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical, Vision and Dental

Travel Medical Insurance

Group Pension Scheme

Group Life Assurance and Income

Parental Leave

Parking and Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking an ASIC Verification Engineer to own verification environments from planning to sign-off, translating architectural requirements into test plans and measurable criteria. You’ll build reusable testbenches, reference models, stimulus, scoreboards and other verification components to drive confidence in our designs.

You will drive verification closure using coverage, regression results, and risk assessment, collaborating across design and trading teams to deliver

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of design verification experience on complex ASIC/SoC projects.
• Experience creating verification plans, building environments, and driving sign-off.
• Strong programming and HDL development skills (SystemVerilog, Python) and proficiency in C/C++.
• Solid understanding of digital design principles and debugging across hardware and software.

Responsibilities

• Own verification environments from planning through sign-off and define test plans with measurable criteria.
• Build reusable testbenches, reference models, stimulus, scoreboards and verification components.
• Drive verification closure using coverage, assertions, and regression results; assess risk and build confidence in designs.
• Collaborate with designers and trading teams to translate requirements into robust verified designs.
• Balance verification depth and development effort to deliver first-time silicon.
• Develop automation, CI, regression infrastructure, and tooling to speed verification.

Skills

SystemVerilog

Python

C/C++

Debugging

Verification planning

Requirements analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

UVM

Cocotb

Assertion-based verification

Front-end ASIC tooling

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-offsStrong 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