Staff Design Verification Engineer

About SiFive

As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.

At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are.  

Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions.  Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time. 

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To learn more about SiFive’s phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA’s prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages.

Job Description:

The Role:

SiFive is creating RISC-V based CPU IPs faster and cheaper than ever before by combining the best practices of rapid, iterative software design with the proven fidelity of hardware engineering.

The Design Verification Engineer will ensure the fidelity of new highly configurable cores and other related IPs, for clients taking on exciting new use cases—like autonomous driving, 5G networking, wearables, or IoT.

Responsibilities:

The Design Verification Engineers will be responsible for adopting state-of-the-art verification methodologies to in-house designs in order to ensure that everything on SiFive’s integrated circuits work as intended. They will need to understand the component parts of the system, create test plans and unit test benches, execute tests to ensure the design captures the architect’s intent, and finally ensure verification quality through coverage metrics and other means.

Because of the uniqueness of SiFive’s chip design flow, the Verification Engineer will have the opportunity to learn state-of-the-art technologies while developing IP with more speed and agility than any other company.

Requirements:

• With +5 years experience in the related fields
• Bachelor's, or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Direct experience with CPU cache hierarchy, cache coherency, and memory consistency are preferred
• Thorough understanding of the high-level verification flow methodology (test plan creation, test generation, failure analysis, coverage analysis, and closure)
• Functional programming experience is not required but helpful
• Proficient in troubleshooting and possessing strong analytical capabilities.
• Good interpersonal skills to listen to diverse points of view and influence people from different disciplines

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Any offer of employment for this position is also contingent on the Company verifying that you are a authorized for access to export-controlled technology under applicable export control laws or, if you are not already authorized, our ability to successfully obtain any necessary export license(s) or other approvals.

SiFive is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.