Senior Design Verification Engineer – High Performance CPU Core

SiFive is looking for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to drive functional verification of high-performance CPU core units. This role focuses on high-performance out-of-order core verification, with potential scope across areas such as Frontend, Midcore, Load-Store Unit, and Hardware Prefetch. You will work closely with architecture, RTL, performance, and verification teams to ensure design intent is verified correctly, risks are identified early, and signoff quality is achieved with strong technical execution.

What You Will Do

Own verification planning and execution for assigned high-performance CPU core areas, from block-level verification through core-level integration. Create effective verification strategies and test plans based on CPU architecture and microarchitectural behavior. Develop and maintain robust verification environments, testbenches, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, stimulus, and coverage models.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We are looking for an engineer who can independently own meaningful verification work, solve complex debug problems efficiently, and contribute reusable methodology and infrastructure to the broader CPU DV team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in IP, CPU/core, or SoC functional verification, preferably with experience in CPU/core verification.
• Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM-based verification methodologies.
• Solid understanding of computer architecture and CPU microarchitecture fundamentals.
• Experience with test planning, testbench development, constrained-random verification, failure analysis, coverage analysis, and coverage closure.
• Strong debug skills and the ability to translate architectural intent into effective verification strategy and execution.
• Strong programming and scripting fundamentals for building scalable verification solutions.

Benefits

• base pay
• variable/incentive compensation
• equity
• comprehensive, competitive benefits package
• healthcare and retirement plans
• paid time off
• more