Hardware Verification Engineer

ROLE: Hardware Verification Engineer

LOCATION: Hemel Hempstead, UK (Hybrid Preferred | Remote Considered)

CONTRACT: Contract | Outside IR35 (both options available)

HOURLY: Negotiable

Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.

About the company: A leading-edge tech company developing next-gen silicon IP across compute, graphics, AI, communications, memory, and security, enabling tomorrow’s innovations across key industries. They are expanding their UK-based engineering team and hiring multiple ASIC Design Engineers (mid-level to senior architect).

About the role: As a Hardware Verification Engineer, you will be a key part of our engineering team, ensuring our complex RISC-V-based systems are robust, high-performing, and built to scale.

What you will be doing:

• Creating and executing thorough verification plans for complex hardware designs

• Developing SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches for functional verification

• Running directed and constrained-random tests

• Maintaining regression suites to validate design quality

• Supporting system-level performance validation

• Debugging design issues and working closely with design engineers

• Using formal verification techniques when appropriate

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in hardware verification (preferably in SoCs)

• Strong skills in SystemVerilog and UVM

• Experience with modern verification tools (ABV, CDV, etc.)

• Bonus: Experience with GPU, vector processors, or AI accelerators

• Bonus: Familiarity with RISC-V architecture

• Strong debugging and analytical skills

• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL)

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar

Why join our client:

• Be part of a forward-thinking company at the forefront of open hardware

• Work on meaningful, next-gen GPU and AI projects

• Collaborate with a passionate, expert team

• Enjoy a flexible, innovative work culture