Principal Silicon Verification Engineer - Bengaluru

Graphcore Early Careers; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore in Bengaluru seeks a senior silicon verification engineer to drive verification activities within the silicon design team and ensure RTL aligns with architecture. The role emphasizes collaboration across sites and languages to deliver high-quality silicon.

The candidate should have 12-14 years in engineering, strong leadership, and expertise in SystemVerilog, Python, C++, and Linux, enabling deep problem solving and robust validation across CPU/ASIC environments.

Qualifications

• 12-14 years of engineering experience in verification.
• Proven leadership and planning skills.
• Ability to work across teams and languages to find root causes of complex issues.
• Experience of verification processes in CPU/ASIC environments.
• Proficient in System Verilog, Python, C++, and Linux.

Responsibilities

• Verification activities within the verification team.
• Ensure good communication between sites.
• Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage.
• Provide feedback to architects.
• Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage.
• Contribute to shared verification infrastructure.

Skills

System Verilog

Python

C++

Linux

Verification experience

Leadership and planning

Team collaboration

Root cause analysis

CPU/ASIC verification

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

UVM

SVA

GCC

LLVM

HTML/JS

Git

XML

XPath

Job description

About us

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.

Job Summary

Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

The Team

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Verification activities within the verification team
• Ensuring good communication between sites
• Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage
• Providing feedback to architects
• Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage
• Contributing to shared verification infrastructure

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• verification experience in relevant industry
• Proven leadership and planning skills
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues
• Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems
• Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team
• Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts
• Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
• System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux
• 12 - 14 years-experience in engineering background

Desirable

• UVM
• SVA
• Assembly languages
• LLVM, GCC
• DVCS e.g. Git
• SGE or other DRMS
• XML and XPath/XSLT
• Web programming - HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL