Principal GPU Hardware Verification Engineer

This position is a unique opportunity to exercise your hardware verification skills on cutting edge designs within the prestigious PowerVR Hardware Graphics group. Here you will exercise your skills on key components that meet latest demands and improvements for graphics, AI or connectivity processor and related IP.

You will:

• Be responsible for the delivery of all verification activities related to a GPU component or sub-system from early stages of verification planning to sign-off.
• Create verification plans, develop and maintain UVM testbench components.
• Track and report verification metrics and closure.
• Participate in all stages of design specification definition providing feedback from the verification perspective.
• Develop testbenches in UVM, write tests, sequences, functional coverage, assertions & verification plans.
• Be responsible for the definition, effort estimation and tracking of your own work.
• Be able to influence and advance our GPU verification methodology.
• Have the opportunity to lead, coach and mentor other members of the team.
• Participate in design and verification reviews and recommend improvements.

About you

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you’re an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You’re curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You’ll have:

• A proven track record of developing verification environments for complex RTL designs.
• Excellent understanding of constrained-random verification methodology and challenges of verification closure.
• Confidence in defining verification requirements, and working out the implementation approach and details of a testbench.
• Ability to do root-cause analysis of complex issues and resolve them in a timely manner.
• Excellent knowledge of SystemVerilog and UVM.
• Ability to develop new verification flows.
• Working knowledge of ASIC design methodologies, flows and tools.
• Ability to plan, estimate and track your own work.
• Experience working on multiple projects at one time.
• The skill to communicate technical issues both in written form and verbally.

You might also have:

• Experience leading teams.
• Graphics/GPU/CPU/SoC knowledge.
• Experience in wider verification technologies, such as formal property based verification and code mutation.
• Scripting skills in Python, TCL, Perl, SystemC, C++ experience.
• Understanding of functional safety standards such as ISO26262.

Who we are

Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software IP designed to give its customers an edge in competitive global technology markets. Its GPU and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before. So come join us if you’re wanting that something more.

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions. As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

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