Sr. Design Verification (CPU)

About the Company Our client is a global semiconductor company developing advanced computing solutions. They are looking for a CPU Design Verification Engineer to work with design, verification, and system teams on the development and validation of complex processor architectures. This role covers functional verification, hardware-software integration, and silicon validation, offering opportunities to work across different stages of the processor development cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse CPU microarchitecture and design specifications to develop verification plans and test scenarios.

• Work with CPU design and verification teams to define test plans, develop stimulus, and verify design functionality.

• Use simulation and formal verification methodologies to validate design behaviour and improve verification coverage.

• Develop testbenches, checkers, assertions, and other verification components using relevant hardware description languages.

• Verify power intent and related design requirements using methodologies such as UPF.

• Collaborate with system architects, software engineers, and SoC teams to validate system-level use cases and hardware-software interactions.

• Support emulation and FPGA-based verification activities.

• Debug and investigate issues identified during simulation, emulation, and silicon testing.

• Develop or maintain assembly and C-based embedded firmware for verification and test development.

• Contribute to test vector development and tester bring-up for silicon validation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a solid understanding of computer architecture.

• Proficiency in C/C++ and experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl.

• Hands-on experience with SystemVerilog or VHDL for hardware verification or test development.

• Familiarity with assembly language and C-based embedded firmware.

• Understanding of processor architecture, instruction execution, and CPU functional behaviour.

• Experience with software development tools such as assemblers, C compilers, Makefiles, and source control systems.

• Knowledge of power management, UPF, or related low-power verification methodologies is an advantage.

• Experience in silicon bring-up, CPU feature validation, or post-silicon debugging is highly desirable.

• Ability to investigate functional, power, performance, or silicon-related issues systematically.

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across hardware and software teams.

What's Next

If you have a strong foundation in computer architecture and an interest in CPU verification, firmware, or silicon validation, we welcome your application. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to complex processor development and work across the hardware verification lifecycle.