CPU Design Verification Engineer

CPU Design Verification Engineer

European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading semicon company, based in the county Cork area, who are looking for a talented CPU Design Verification Engineer to join their team .

Responsibilities as CPU Design Verification Engineer:

• Collaborating with CPU and SoC Architects to understand system requirements and high-level design concepts.
• Creating detailed test plans and coverage strategies based on the system architecture and micro-architecture.
• Developing scalable and portable verification methodologies for various environments.
• Building the verification environment.
• Designing verification plans and testbenches specific to your functional domain.
• Executing verification plans.
• Monitoring and reporting on DV progress using various metrics, including bug tracking and coverage analysis.

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in microprocessor verification, with a deep understanding of concepts like cache coherence, memory ordering and consistency, prefetching, branch prediction etc.
• Familiarity with Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS) for testing designs at both the block/unit level and subsystem/chip level to validate correctness.
• Knowledge of advanced verification techniques such as formal verification, assertions, and silicon bring-up is a plus.
• Experience in writing test plans, developing portable testbenches, creating transactors, and working with assembly code.
• Proficiency with various verification tools and methodologies, including simulators, coverage collection, gate-level simulation, waveform viewers, and formal proof tools.
• Ability to work independently on block/unit-level verification of the design.
• Thorough understanding of microprocessor functions, architectures, and micro-architectures.

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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