CPU Core Feature Verification and Debug Engineer

Job Description

Tenstorrent is seeking a CPU Core Feature Verification and Debug Engineer to join their team in Bangalore, India. This role is crucial for ensuring the quality and reliability of Tenstorrent's high-performance RISC-V CPU core. The engineer will be responsible for test planning, stimulus development, and regression debugging for simulation and emulation regressions.

• Functional verification with emphasis on core level testplanning
• Stimulus development and regression debug for simulation and emulation regressions
• Understand ISA and microarchitectural specifications for the Core and create comprehensive testplans
• Hands-on debug for core level failures
• Propose and implement stimulus enhancements and debug capability improvements for core, cluster and chip level testbench environments
• Develop architectural and microarchitectural coverage for core features and create stimulus for closing coverage in a timely manner
• Support design deployment across simulation and emulation platforms
• Develop random and directed stimulus that spans pre-silicon, emulation and post-silicon domain
• Work with design, test and post silicon validation teams to ensure high quality delivery of the entire CPU core / cluster

Requirements:

• BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS with at least 3 years of experience
• Strong background and experience with high performance OOO CPU microarchitecture
• Experience and understanding of one or more ISAs - x86, ARM or RISCV
• Experience debugging RTL and DV in a simulation environment, proficient at waveform and log file based debug
• Experienced with assembly, C/C++ and UVM based stimulus generation targeting both ISA and microarchitectural scenarios
• Familiar with simulation, formal and emulation environments
• Hands-on with scripting (Python, PERL)
• Experience with hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL) and simulators (VCS, NC, Verilator)
• Strong problem solving and debug skills across various levels of design hierarchies

Tenstorrent offers:

• A highly competitive compensation package and benefits