Principal Silicon Verification Engineer - Bengaluru at Graphcore

About us

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.

Job Summary

Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

The Team

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon.

Responsibilities and Duties

Verification activities within the verification team
Ensuring good communication between sites
Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage
Providing feedback to architects
Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage
Contributing to shared verification infrastructure

Candidate Profile

Essential:

verification experience in relevant industry
Proven leadership and planning skills
Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player
Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues
Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems
Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team
Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts
Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux
12 – 14 years-experience in engineering background

Desirable

UVM
SVA
Assembly languages
LLVM, GCC
DVCS e.g. Git
SGE or other DRMS
XML and XPath/XSLT
Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL

Life at Graphcore

Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU's unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.

We believe our IPU technology will become the worldwide standard for artificial intelligence compute. The performance of Graphcore's IPU is going to be transformative across all industries and sectors whether you are a medical researcher, roboticist or building autonomous cars.

Our team is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries and sectors to expand human potential with technology. What we do, really makes a difference.

We're always interested in hearing from exceptional people to join our team.

Thrive Here & What We Value

Unlimited Holiday

Flexible Working

Private Medical Insurance & Health Cash Plan

Dental Plan

Pension Matched Up To 5%

Life Assurance & Income Protection

Employee Assistance Programme

Active Social Scene Across Offices

Principal Silicon Verification Engineer - Bengaluru