CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Munster; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit are partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cork, Ireland, seeking a CPU Design Verification Engineer to join the team and drive verification efforts for complex CPU blocks. The role focuses on developing scalable verification environments, test plans, and robust testbenches to ensure correctness across microarchitecture and system-level integration.

The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of microprocessor verification concepts, formal methods, and

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in microprocessor verification, incl. cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency, prefetching, branch prediction.
• Familiarity with RIS for block/unit and subsystem/chip validation.
• Knowledge of formal verification, assertions; silicon bring-up a plus.
• Experience writing test plans and developing portable testbenches.
• Creating transactors and working with assembly code.
• Proficiency with verification tools: simulators, coverage, gate-level sim, waveform viewers, formal proof tools.
• Ability to work independently on block/unit-level verification.
• Thorough understanding of microprocessor functions and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CPU and SoC architects to translate system requirements into verification concepts.
• Create detailed test plans and coverage strategies from architecture.
• Develop scalable verification methodologies for various environments.
• Build the verification environment and testbenches for your domain.
• Design verification plans and tests for your functional area.
• Monitor DV progress and report using metrics, bug tracking, and coverage analysis.

Skills

Microprocessor verification

RIS testing

Formal verification

Assertions

Test plans

Portable testbenches

Transactors

Assembly code

Verification tools

Tools

Simulators

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.

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