Senior Design Verification Engineer

Position Overview

As a Senior Design Verification Engineer, you will apply industrial-strength verification to both system and block-level designs, including RISC-V cores, OTBN (cryptographic CPU), AES accelerators, and peripherals like USB, I2C, and SPI.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and debug block/system-level tests and testbenches using SystemVerilog and UVM
• Develop test and coverage plans for new and updated designs
• Triage and debug nightly regressions
• Review contributions to open-source projects
• Enhance test and CI infrastructure
• Collaborate on academic/industry publications
• Stay current with verification best practices and introduce improvements

Candidate Requirements

Essential:

• 5+ years industry experience in design verification
• Strong SystemVerilog and UVM expertise
• Experience across the full verification cycle (planning to tape-out)
• Able to provide estimates and coordinate with project managers
• Comfortable in multidisciplinary, multi-organisation teams
• Familiar with Git and code review tools (GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit)
• Programming in C and/or Python for tests and automation
• Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline or equivalent

Desirable:

• Experience with multiple hardware block types
• Knowledge of security countermeasures (fault injection, side-channel attacks)
• Experience with RISC-V ISA or other instruction sets
• Familiarity with formal verification tools (e.g., JasperGold)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Employer pension contribution
• Private medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life cover
• Opportunities to attend industry conferences and training