CPU Top-Level Design Verification Engineer

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort interfacing with many disciplines, with a critical impact on getting high quality products to millions of customers quickly.

As a CPU Top-Level Design Verification Engineer owning the verification methodology, tools, and flow of a high performance lower power processor design, you will have the responsibilities as follows:

• Work closely with verification engineers and RTL designers on defining effective verification methodology for low power complex processor design
• Develop test plans, test benches, and test environments
• Develop tests in assembly, and C/C++
• Drive and develop the tools and flows for advanced verification methodology
• Developing, verifying, and maintaining efficient testbench environments
• Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the plans are covered

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering preferred

• Computer Architecture - Strong understanding of processor design, instruction set architectures, pipeline design, cache hierarchies, and memory systems

• RTL development - Experience creating efficient, synthesizable RTL code with understanding of timing closure, area optimization, and power-aware design techniques

• SystemVerilog - Proficiency in SystemVerilog including advanced features like interfaces, assertions, and verification constructs. Ability to write clean, maintainable HDL code for both design and verification

• Programming/scripting skills (C, C++, Python) - Strong software development capabilities for automation and tool development. C/C++ experience with embedded programming and hardware interfaces. Python proficiency for scripting, design automation, and EDA tool integration

• Problem solving skills - Analytical thinking and systematic approach to complex hardware design and verification challenges