CPU Verification Engineer

India

This position involves extensive hands-on experience with CPU verification using industry standard functional verification methodologies and reference model-based checkers. The candidate must be able to quickly understand design requirements and develop tests to verify complex multi-processor CPU IP.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering with 3+ years of industry experience with a focus on functional verification in CPU/GPU/DSP area
Exposure to various ASIC design and verification tools with good digital design concepts
Experience with Interconnect protocols like AXI/ACE/ CHI/OCP
Scripting experience in Python/Perl/TCL/Shell
Ability to create functional test plans and implement them as part of pre-silicon verification
Strong knowledge of Verilog/SystemVerilog and C/C++
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with Multicore Processors or other complex pipelined digital products.
Experience in writing System Verilog assertions
Experience with UVM
Experience with CPU architectures and industry leading RISC processors
Understanding of Assembly level programming

Roles and Responsibilities

Work closely with designers to understand specifications at unit/top level
Understand use-cases and develop functional test plans
Develop directed tests in C, Assembly and SystemVerilog
Develop random test generators to stress micro-architectural implementations
Work across multiple teams and global sites to find, debug and root-cause bugs
Analyze coverage and fix holes in the test plan
Enhance verification environment and testbench using latest methodologies, tools and automation