Senior CPU Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in Cambridge, who are looking for a talented Senior CPU Verification Engineer to join their team.

Responsibilities as Senior CPU Verification Engineer:

• Development/ownership of varied aspects of unit verification environments including testbench components, tests/stimulus, checkers and functional coverage. Involvement in end-to-end verification processes, from test plan creation through to verification closure.
• Investigation of test failures and debug of sometimes complex technical issues that can cross team boundaries.
• Work with project leads and team members to plan, prioritize, track, and coordinate tasks to meet quality goals at the planned time.
• Contribute to verification improvement activities across the CPU group and the wider verification community.

Requirements:

• Experience of simulation based verification of RTL designs. Familiarity with constrained random verification, coverage metrics, checking methodologies.
• Software development skills to write flexible, maintainable code in an object oriented language. Familiarity with version control, preferably using git in conjunction with a change based code review flow.
• Ability to apply complex specification detail . Curiosity to resolve ambiguities.
• Proficiency in problem solving and debugging.
• The interpersonal and communication skills, to work well in a team and a practical, result-focused approach.

Desirable experience:

• Familiarity with assembly language.
• Understanding of computer architecture fundamentals, such as pipelining, exception handling, memory systems. Perhaps some practical experience of working on microprocessor designs.
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog, maybe using a methodology such as UVM.
• Python programming experience, for example to automate verification flows.
• C++ programming experience, maybe in the context of a mixed-language testbench.
• Experience with Continuous Integration flows using tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience with formal verification.
• Experience leading/coordinating/mentoring small teams.

If this role is of any interest please apply directly on LinkedIn or send a copy of your CV to [email protected].

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