Senior Verification Engineer - Semiconductors/CPU/Systems - (Visas Supported)

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Verification Engineer to join a British semiconductor company at their site in either Cambridge or Manchester, UK.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of a specific area of a CPU project ranging from unit-level testbench development through to the overall verification methodology for a CPU project.
• Responsibility for producing test plans and verification strategies.
• Planning, tracking, and coordinating the tasks of you or your team to meet high quality goals at the planned time.
• Ensuring the quality of the verification work done is of the expected standard.
• Being part of verification improvement strategies across the CPU group and the wider verification community.
• Evaluating and determining causality of different issues throughout the verification process per project.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience in designing and implementing verification environments for complex RTL designs.
• Well-versed in the use of hardware verification languages e.g. SystemVerilog or Specman ‘e’ .
• Understanding of end-to-end verification processes, from test plan creation through to verification closure.
• Ability to quickly understand and apply complex specification detail.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture, with an emphasis on pipelining, exception handling, memory systems.

‘Nice to have’ Skills and Experience:

• Verification methodologies such as UVM .
• Practical experience of working on microprocessor designs.
• In-depth understanding of memory protection, memory translation, vector processing in CPUs , exception and interrupt handling.
• Understanding of constrained random stimulus, the goals and general usefulness of different types of coverage in hardware, as well as checking methodologies and behavioral functional models.
• Knowledge of assembly language, and/or C/C++.

Visa support can be offered if required.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology, Engineering, and Other

Industries

Semiconductor Manufacturing, Computer Hardware Manufacturing, and Software Development

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