CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit is partnering with a leading semiconductor and wireless company to hire talented engineers for CPU and system-level verification. The role focuses on validating micro-architecture concepts and ensuring designs are fully verified for product launch.

The position is onsite 5 days a week in Cork, Ireland, offering opportunities to lead verification efforts, develop test plans, and mentor junior engineers within a high-growth team.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in CPU verification and microprocessor architectures.
• Experience with random instruction sequencing (RIS) and functional correctness verification.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring small verification teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CPU and SoC architects to understand architectural concepts and system-level requirements.
• Define detailed test and coverage plans based on CPU architecture and micro-architecture specifications.
• Develop and maintain scalable verification methodologies across projects and environments.
• Build and own verification environments, including stimulus, checkers, assertions, scoreboards, trackers, and coverage models.
• Develop verification plans and testbenches for your assigned functional domain.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enablement, and debug of test failures.
• Track and report verification progress using metrics such as coverage closure and bug status.
• Mentor and technically guide junior verification engineers and contribute to team best practices.

Skills

CPU verification

RIS

Mentoring

Formal verification

Testbenches

Test plans

Assembly tests

Gate-level simulation

Waveform viewers

Verif regression

Job description

We are partnered with a leading semicon and wireless company who are hiring talented engineers to validate CPU and system-level micro-architecture concepts and ensure designs are fully verified and ready for product launch.

This role requires 5 days per week onsite in Cork.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with CPU and SoC architects to understand architectural concepts and system-level requirements
• Define detailed test and coverage plans based on CPU architecture and micro-architecture specifications
• Develop and maintain scalable, reusable verification methodologies across projects and environments
• Build and own verification environments, including stimulus, checkers, assertions, scoreboards, trackers, and coverage models
• Develop verification plans and testbenches for your assigned functional domain
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enablement, and debug of test failures
• Track and report verification progress using metrics such as coverage closure and bug status
• Mentor and technically guide junior verification engineers and contribute to team best practices

What We’re Looking For

• Deep expertise in CPU verification and microprocessor architectures
• Experience with random instruction sequencing (RIS) and functional correctness verification at block, subsystem, and full-chip levels
• Proven experience leading or mentoring small verification teams
• Hands-on experience with advanced verification techniques, including formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up
• Strong understanding of CPU micro-architecture and system-level design concepts
• Experience writing test plans, portable testbenches, transactors, and assembly-level tests
• Familiarity with industry-standard verification tools and methodologies, including simulators, coverage analysis, gate-level simulation, waveform viewers, and formal tools
• Ability to independently own and deliver verification for a block or functional unit

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