Senior High-Performance CPU Core Verification Engineer

SiFive; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

SiFive is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to drive functional verification of high-performance CPU core units. You will work closely with architecture, RTL, performance, and verification teams to ensure design intent is verified correctly, risks are identified early, and signoff quality is achieved with strong technical execution.

We are looking for an engineer who can independently own meaningful verification work, solve complex debug problems efficiently, and contribute reusable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in IP, CPU/core, or SoC functional verification, preferably with CPU/core verification.
• Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification methodologies.
• Solid understanding of computer architecture and CPU microarchitecture fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own verification planning and execution for assigned high-performance CPU core areas, from block-level verification through core-level integration.
• Create effective verification strategies and test plans based on CPU architecture and microarchitectural behavior.
• Develop and maintain robust verification environments, testbenches, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, stimulus, and coverage models.
• Define and execute directed and constrained-random tests that expose corner cases in branch prediction, instruction fetch, pipeline interactions, issue/dispatch behavior, hazard handling, load/store ordering, memory consistency, and hardware prefetch behavior.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

CPU verification

Debugging

Programming basics

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in EE/CE/CS

Job description

SiFive is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to drive functional verification of high-performance CPU core units. You will work closely with architecture, RTL, performance, and verification teams to ensure design intent is verified correctly, risks are identified early, and signoff quality is achieved with strong technical execution.

We are looking for an engineer who can independently own meaningful verification work, solve complex debug problems efficiently, and contribute reusable