Senior Silicon Verification Engineer

Graphcore; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible interview scheduling

Inclusive work environment

Job summary

Graphcore is expanding its AI engineering footprint in Bengaluru with a Silicon Verification Engineer role. The team verifies RTL against architecture specs for Graphcore silicon, working across CPU/ASIC contexts and collaborating with design teams to ensure high-quality silicon delivery.

We seek self-starters with strong leadership and planning skills, proficient in SystemVerilog, Python, C++, and Linux, and capable of cross-team collaboration to resolve deep technical issues.

Qualifications

• Verification experience in the semiconductor/ASIC industry.
• Proven leadership and planning skills.
• Motivated self-starter, team player.
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to diagnose complex issues.
• Experience of the verification process in CPU/ASIC environments.

Responsibilities

• Create verification plans, specify and close functional coverage.
• Provide feedback to architects on design and verification.
• Generate tests and perform failure diagnosis/triage.
• Contribute to shared verification infrastructure and methodologies.
• Ensure effective communication between different sites.

Skills

SystemVerilog

Python

C++

Linux

Verification experience

Leadership & planning

Tools

CPU/ASIC verification

Job description

Silicon Verification Engineer

Multiple roles across different levels

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. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team and is 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. The silicon verification engineer is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

Responsibilities

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

Essential skills

• Verification experience in relevant industry
• Proven leadership and planning skills
• 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
• Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
• System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux

Desirable skills

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

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.