CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer

About This Role

• This position requires candidates to upload a resume in English; you are welcome to upload multiple versions of your resume if you prefer but an English version of your resume will be required to be considered for this position.
• We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer to join our advanced CPU verification team.
• In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the functional correctness and robustness of CPU logic designs through state ‑ of ‑ the ‑ art pre ‑ silicon verification methodologies.
• You will work closely with microarchitecture, design, and post ‑ silicon teams to help deliver high ‑ performance, power ‑ efficient, and reliable CPU IP.
• Key Responsibilities: Lead and execute pre ‑ silicon functional verification of complex CPU microarchitecture blocks and top ‑ level subsystems, ensuring correctness against architectural and microarchitectural specifications.
• Develop, own, and maintain comprehensive verification and test plans, including corner cases, stress scenarios, and detailed coverage goals.
• Architect, build, and enhance scalable UVM ‑ based (or similar) constrained ‑ random verification environments, including reusable testbenches, agents, sequences, checkers, and scoreboards.
• Define and implement advanced functional, code, and assertion coverage models, driving systematic coverage ‑ driven closure.
• Implement high ‑ quality stimulus and assertion ‑ based verification (SVA) to validate complex logic behaviors and corner ‑ case interactions.
• Execute block ‑ level and system ‑ level simulations to uncover design bugs, integration issues, and functional inconsistencies.
• Debug complex RTL and testbench failures, performing thorough root ‑ cause analysis using simulation tools, waveforms, formal methods, and collaboration with designers.
• Work closely with CPU architects and RTL designers to validate intricate architectural and microarchitectural features, review specifications, identify verification risks, and propose design or methodology improvements.
• Drive technical reviews and document verification strategies, methodologies, and results, ensuring alignment across architecture, design, and verification teams.
• Enhance verification infrastructure and methodologies, enabling higher automation, scalability, and productivity across the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best ‑ practice development, methodology refinement, and tool ‑ flow improvements.
• Support related activities, including performance modeling, formal verification, emulation, and prototyping, as needed for overall CPU validation.