CPU Design Verification Engineer
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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.
As a CPU Design Verification Engineer owning the verification of a certain area of functionality in a CPU design, you will have the responsibilities as follows:
• Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functional correctness of the design • Develop test plans and test environments • Develop tests in assembly, C, or vectors according to test plans • Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the plans are covered • Develop checkers and SystemVerilog or C-base transactors to verify the design
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum BS and 20+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience with CPU architecture
- Experience with digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture
- Programming experience in C/C++ or SystemVerilog
- Experience with developing testplans/testbenches, C-based transactors, and writing/debugging tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
- Operating system knowledge
- Experience in post-silicon bringup
- Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal
- Should be a great teammate with excellent communication skills and be able to work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design