CPU Verification Engineer

About Proxelera:

Proxelera is Indias premium chip and system software product engineering partner. Our engineers take extreme passion in your assignments and deliver through their years of high quality experience to make your product successful. We understand the challenges of all aspects of product engineering right from design planning stage to post silicon work. We also offer you unparalleled quality of service in productization of your chip through reference system design and system software development.

Job Title: ASIC Design Verification Engineer

Work Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Experience - 2-3 Years

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with architects, design engineers, and other verification engineers to understand new CPU features to be verified.
• Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, various design sub-units within CPU, SOC and also hardware, firmware, and software use cases if applicable.
• Estimate time required to write new feature tests and any required changes to the test environment and tools.
• Develop directed and random verification tests.
• Understanding the existing test bench setup and look for opportunities to improve it.
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL design engineers to resolve design defects and correct any stimulus or testbench issues.
• Use scripting and internal AI tools to come up with innovative solutions to day-to-day problems and to improve individual as well as team's productivity.
• Develop functional coverage properties as needed.
• Review functional and code coverage metrics modify or add tests or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements.

PREFERRED EXPERENCE:

• ASIC design verification experience of 2-3 years or more.
• Understanding or technical expertise in functional verification of microprocessor designs.
• Experience with Verilog/System Verilog HDL, programming in Perl/Python/Ruby, C/C++, Makefile and logic simulation.
• Experience with x86, ARM or any other industry standard microprocessor architecture.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and assembly programming, preferably x86.
• A passion for computer architecture and a good understanding of modern, out-of-order superscalar processor architecture.
• Strong understanding of the design and verification life cycle.
• Experience in CPU cache/memory subsystem verification is a plus.
• Simulation and debugging with a Verilog-based functional simulator.
• General functional verification experience with digital designs.
• Working experience in UNIX software environment.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in both pre- and post-silicon environments.
• Familiarity with use of AI is a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Masters (preferred) or Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar with a focus on computer architecture

Send your resume to: krishnaprasad.k@proxelera.com

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