CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Cork; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit is collaborating with a leading semiconductor company in County Cork to hire a CPU Design Verification Engineer. The role focuses on building scalable verification environments, developing test plans, and collaborating with CPU/SoC architects to ensure robust design verification.

Key requirements include deep microprocessor verification expertise, RIS testing, and familiarity with formal verification and silicon bring-up.

Qualifications

• Experience in microprocessor verification with cache coherence and memory ordering concepts.
• Familiarity with RIS testing at block/unit and chip level.
• Knowledge of formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up is a plus.
• Experience writing test plans and portable testbenches with transactors and assembly code.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with CPU and SoC Architects to understand system requirements and high-level design concepts.
• Creating detailed test plans and coverage strategies based on the system architecture and micro-architecture.
• Developing scalable and portable verification methodologies for various environments.
• Building the verification environment.
• Designing verification plans and testbenches specific to your functional domain.
• Monitoring and reporting on DV progress using various metrics, including bug tracking and coverage analysis.

Skills

Microprocessor verification

RIS testing

Formal verification

Assertions

Silicon bring-up

Tools

Simulators

Coverage tools

Waveform viewers

Formal proof tools

Job description

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in the county Cork area, who are looking for a talented CPU Design Verification Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities as CPU Design Verification Engineer:

• Collaborating with CPU and SoC Architects to understand system requirements and high-level design concepts.
• Creating detailed test plans and coverage strategies based on the system architecture and micro-architecture.
• Developing scalable and portable verification methodologies for various environments.
• Building the verification environment.
• Designing verification plans and testbenches specific to your functional domain.
• Monitoring and reporting on DV progress using various metrics, including bug tracking and coverage analysis.

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in microprocessor verification, with a deep understanding of concepts like cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency, prefetching, branch prediction etc.
• Familiarity with Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) for testing designs at both the block/unit level and subsystem/chip level to validate correctness.
• Knowledge of advanced verification techniques such as formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up is a plus.
• Experience in writing test plans, developing portable testbenches, creating transactors, and working with assembly code.
• Proficiency with various verification tools and methodologies, including simulators, coverage collection, gate-level simulation, waveform viewers, and formal proof tools.
• Ability to work independently on block/unit-level verification of the design.
• Thorough understanding of microprocessor functions, architectures, and micro-architectures.