Senior CPU Verification Engineer – Onsite in Cork

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

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.