CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Munster; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit is partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cork, Ireland, to hire a CPU Design Verification Engineer. You will join a team responsible for verification across CPU and SoC architectures and collaborate to translate system requirements into verification strategies.

Responsibilities include building verification environments, creating test plans and testbenches, and tracking DV progress with metrics, coverage analyses, and bug tracking.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in microprocessor verification, with deep understanding of cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency.
• Familiarity with RIS for testing designs at block/unit and subsystem/chip levels to validate correctness.
• Knowledge of formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up is a plus.

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 metrics, including bug tracking and coverage analysis.

Skills

Microprocessor verification

RIS testing

Formal verification

Test plans

Testbenches

Verif tools

Tools

Simulators

Coverage tools

Gate-level sim

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.