Senior Staff Engineer CPU Verification

Senior Staff Engineer – CPU Verification

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 10–16 Years

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer – CPU Verification to own the verification of complex CPU microarchitecture, drive testbench architecture, and deliver comprehensive functional verification for next-generation processor cores.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement CPU verification environments using SystemVerilog, UVM, and C/C++.
• Verify complex CPU microarchitecture, including:
• Out-of-Order (OoO) execution and instruction pipeline
• Branch prediction and speculative execution
• Register renaming, ROB, issue/dispatch, and execution units
• L1/L2 caches, TLB, MMU, and memory ordering
• Interrupts, exceptions, and privilege modes
• Develop advanced reference models, scoreboards, checkers, assertions, and functional coverage.
• Drive constrained-random testing, directed testing, architectural compliance, and corner-case validation.
• Debug complex RTL failures using waveform analysis, simulation, and emulation platforms.
• Own coverage closure, regression infrastructure, and verification signoff for critical CPU features.
• Collaborate with CPU RTL, microarchitecture, formal, performance, and post-silicon validation teams.

Core Technical Requirements

• 10–16 years of hands-on experience in CPU / Processor Design Verification.
• Expert-level proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA, and constrained-random verification.
• Strong knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and instruction execution pipelines.
• Experience developing CPU verification components, including scoreboards, reference models, monitors, agents, and coverage models.
• Strong expertise in RTL simulation, debug, regression automation, and functional coverage closure.
• Experience with ARM, RISC-V, or x86 architecture and ISA-level verification.
• Proficiency in Python, C/C++, or Perl for verification automation.

Senior Staff Technical Ownership

• Own end-to-end verification architecture for critical CPU microarchitectural features.
• Define verification plans, identify architectural corner cases, and drive coverage closure.
• Develop reusable verification infrastructure and improve simulation and regression efficiency.
• Resolve complex design and verification challenges through technical innovation.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to senior engineers and contribute to verification methodology.