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Principal Silicon Verification Engineer - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, India

About us 

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.    

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. 

Job Summary  
Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.  

The Team 

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are 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 

Essential: 
 

  • 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 
  • Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems 
  • Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team 
  • Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results 
  • Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts 
  • Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments 
  • System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux  
  • 12 – 14 years-experience in engineering background 

Desirable 

  • UVM 
  • SVA 
  • Assembly languages 
  • LLVM, GCC 
  • DVCS e.g. Git 
  • SGE or other DRMS 
  • XML and XPath/XSLT 
  • Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL  

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