Staff High-Performance CPU Verification Engineer

SiFive; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SiFive is seeking a Staff Design Verification Engineer to drive verification of high-performance CPU cores. This staff role spans Frontend, Midcore, Load-Store Unit, and hardware prefetch, requiring strategy, debug, and scalable DV methodology.

You will work with architecture, RTL, performance, and DV teams to ensure design intent is captured and risks are identified early. The successful candidate will have 7+ years in ASIC/CPU verification, strong SystemVerilog and UVM skills, and a deep

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant ASIC/CPU/core or SoC design verification experience.
• Strong hands-on SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification experience.
• Direct CPU/core verification experience and solid computer architecture knowledge.
• Experience across Frontend, Midcore, Load-Store Unit, memory ordering, or hardware prefetch verification.

Responsibilities

• Own verification planning and execution for high-performance CPU core areas such as Frontend, Midcore, Load-Store Unit or related core interactions.
• Drive block- and core-level verification planning, debug, coverage analysis, and closure for complex CPU features.
• Define verification strategies for instruction fetch, branch prediction, and pipeline interactions.
• Develop robust verification environments, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, and coverage models.
• Collaborate with architecture and design teams to review specs and improve verification quality.
• Lead root-cause debug and efficient failure analysis across spec, RTL, tests, and DV infrastructure.
• Contribute reusable DV methodology and guidance for current and future cores.

Skills

SystemVerilog

UVM

CPU/core verification

Test planning

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

SiFive is seeking a Staff Design Verification Engineer to drive verification of high-performance CPU cores. This staff role spans Frontend, Midcore, Load-Store Unit, and hardware prefetch, requiring strategy, debug, and scalable DV methodology.

You will work with architecture, RTL, performance, and DV teams to ensure design intent is captured and risks are identified early. The successful candidate will have 7+ years in ASIC/CPU verification, strong SystemVerilog and UVM skills, and a deep