CPU Design Verification Engineer
3 days ago
Cambridge
CPU Design Verification Engineer European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in Cambridge, who are looking for a talented CPU Design Verification Engineer to join their team. In this role you will work with Chip Architects to validate the concepts of CPU and SOC level micro-architectures. You will work on a selected part of the CPU Design Verification to ensure that it functions to the standards of being launch ready for the end product. Responsibilities as CPU Design Verification Engineer: • Working with CPU and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements., • Developing detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture., • Developing Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments., • Developing Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers, and Coverage., • Developing Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain., • Executing Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures., • Tracking and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage. Requirements: • Deep knowledge of Micro-Processor Verification functions and Architectures, in domains such as: Cache Coherence, Memory ordering and Consistency, Prefetching, Branch Prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, and Address Translation/Memory Management., • Knowledge of Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) and testing a given design, at the Block/Unit-level and Subsystem/Chip-level for proving correctness., • Experience in leading a small team of Verification engineers performing CPU Verification., • Advance techniques such as: Formal, Assertions, and Silicon bring up, is helpful., • In-depth knowledge of Micro-processor functions, Architectures, and Micro-architectures., • Experience in writing Test plans, portable Testbenches, Transactors, and Assembly code., • Experience with different Verification Methodologies and Tools such as Simulators, Coverage collection, Gate-level Simulation, Waveform viewers, and Formal Proof Tools., • Ability to develop and work independently on a Block/Unit of the design. If this role is of any interest please apply directly on LinkedIn or send a copy of your CV to . By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data and store and process it on our systems. For more information please see our Privacy Notice ()