CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit; Munster; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

European Tech Recruit, partnering with a leading semiconductor company in Cork, seeks a CPU Design Verification Engineer to join a dynamic team. The role focuses on developing verification strategies and building scalable environments.

The ideal candidate will apply microprocessor verification expertise, RIS testing, and formal techniques to validate designs from block to chip level, contributing to high-quality silicon bring-up and project milestones.

Formación

• Strong understanding of microprocessor verification concepts (cache coherence, memory ordering, consistency).
• Experience creating portable testbenches and test plans for DV.
• Familiarity with formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up is advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborating with CPU and SoC architects to understand system requirements and high-level design concepts.
• Creating detailed test plans and coverage strategies based on 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.
• Executing verification plans.
• Monitoring and reporting on DV progress using metrics including bug tracking and coverage analysis.

Conocimientos

Microprocessor verification concepts

RIS testing methods

Formal verification techniques

Testbench development

Assembly language familiarity

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related

Herramientas

Simulation tools

Waveform viewers

Formal proof tools

Descripción del empleo

CPU Design Verification Engineer

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.
• Executing verification plans.
• 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.