An exciting opportunity has just opened for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to join a cutting:edge team in Cambridge, UK, driving innovation in next:gen semiconductor projects
Role: Senior Design Verification Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK
Duration: Permanent
Salary: Negotiable (depending on qualifications and experience)
Position Overview
As a Senior Design Verification Engineer, you will apply industrial:strength verification to both system and block:level designs, including RISC:V cores, OTBN (cryptographic CPU), AES accelerators, and peripherals like USB, I2C, and SPI.
Key Responsibilities
:Design, implement, and debug block/system:level tests and testbenches using SystemVerilog and UVM
:Develop test and coverage plans for new and updated designs
:Triage and debug nightly regressions
:Review contributions to open:source projects
:Enhance test and CI infrastructure
:Collaborate on academic/industry publications
:Stay current with verification best practices and introduce improvements
Candidate Requirements
Essential:
:5+ years industry experience in design verification
:Strong SystemVerilog and UVM expertise
:Experience across the full verification cycle (planning to tape:out)
:Able to provide estimates and coordinate with project managers
:Comfortable in multidisciplinary, multi:organisation teams
:Familiar with Git and code review tools (GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit)
:Programming in C and/or Python for tests and automation
:Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline or equivalent
Desirable:
:Experience with multiple hardware block types
:Knowledge of security countermeasures (fault injection, side:channel attacks)
:Experience with RISC:V ISA or other instruction sets
:Familiarity with formal verification tools (e.g., JasperGold)
Benefits
:25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
:Employer pension contribution
:Private medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life cover
:Opportunities to attend industry conferences and training
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