Senior CPU Verification Engineer, Silicon

Google

8 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 30/06/2025

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience working with CPU/GPU benchmark characterization
Experience with microarchitecture technology.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with performance analysis tools.
Knowledge of system software components, such as Linux, drivers, and runtime.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with architecture and system design teams to define clear verification goals and objectives, with a focus on CPU-specific features and performance, particularly within the ARM architecture.
Design and implement reusable DV infrastructure components, including testbenches, stimulus generators, and checkers, tailored for CPU verification within the ARM ecosystem. Create and enhance CPU testbench DV flow, focusing on compilation/linking, memory loads, debug hooks, and adherence to ARM specifications.
Define and track key coverage metrics to ensure thorough verification and identify potential design flaws in CPU Sub-System.
Contribute to power-aware verification, gate-level simulations, and post-silicon CPU bring-up.
Work with AMBA buses like CHI (Coherent Hub Interface) and ACE (AXI Coherency Extensions), as well as cache coherency protocols.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.