Silicon Verification Engineers

Job Description

Graphcore is seeking a Silicon Verification Engineer to join their team in Bristol, UK. Graphcore is developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models.

The Silicon Verification Engineer will be responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team and is responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Verification activities within the verification team
• Ensuring good communication between sites
• Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage
• Providing feedback to architects
• Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage
• Contributing to shared verification infrastructure

Candidate Profile:

• Verification experience in relevant industry
• Proven leadership and planning skills
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues
• Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
• System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux

Graphcore offers:

• Flexible working
• A generous annual leave policy
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• A dental plan
• Pension (matched up to 5%)
• Life assurance and income protection
• A generous parental leave policy
• An employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support)