Company Description
RISC-V is an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) standard enabling a new era of processor innovation through open collaboration. RISC-V International enables the community to share technical investment, contribute to the strategic future, create more rapidly, enjoy unprecedented design freedom, and substantially reduce the cost of innovation.RISC-V International, a non-profit organization controlled by its members, directs the future development and drives the adoption of the RISC-V ISA. Members of RISC-V International have access to and participate in the development of the RISC-V ISA specifications and related ecosystem.This role is a full-time contract opportunity, dedicated to RISC-V International.
Individual and service companies are encouraged to apply. It will start with a 6-month contract, but then will be extended in 1 year increments.To learn more about RISC-V, please visit: www.riscv.org.
Job Description
RISC-V International is looking for a Junior level Verification Engineer to work as a part of the technical team focused specifically on certification program test development.Time will be billed hourly as worked with a maximum of 40 hours / week. The expected salary range will be $8,000 to $10,000 per month based on experience.Key responsibilities include:
- Work as a member of the RISC-V International Technical Team and with the RISC-V CSC community to build and deliver certification tests and test plans
- Attend RISC-V Certification Steering Committee (CSC) and work group meetings; collaborate with certification working groups members to support test case and test plan development and maintenance
- Use simulation environments for Sail, Spike, QEMU, and others as-needed, to meet the CSC requirements for test evaluation and development
- Execute within a tools-based, repeatable process for evaluating test case coverage using SystemVerilog-based coverage tools to measure certification tests
- Collaborate with RISC-V open source test suite communities to improve test coverage through test suite development and maintenance work
- Provide documentation creation and review of test setup, execution of selected test suites
Qualifications
The following qualifications are required for consideration:
- BS/BA degree in EE or ECE
- 2-3 years developing processor verification tests
- Mastery of UNIX/Linux-based scripting tools and languages – make, bash, perl, Python, etc.
- Experience with coverage-driven, verification testing
- Experience with instruction set simulators (ISS)
- Experience using SystemVerilog
- Experience writing and configuring verification tests in a variety of environments including silicon, simulators and FPGA environments
- Experience with GitHub, including CI/regression test automation
The following skills are preferred:
- Masters or PhD in EE or ECE
- RISC-V ISA and assembly language experience
- Experience with QEMU, Spike, or Sail simulators.
- Open Source software and hardware community experience
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
