Principal Verification Engineer

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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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 Verification architect 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 Verification architect 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, working with architect team from early feature development stage to provide verification feedback for architect-for-verification, creating verification strategies for given features/components, participating in microarchitecture design phase with the design team for design-for-verification, brainstorming corner case scenario with Design and DV team to improve verification quality, working with DV leads to ensure the test plan captures the architect and design intents, and finally ensuring verification quality through coverage metrics and other means. CPU core experience is a significant plus for this position.

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

Requirements:

• With +12 years experience in the related fields.

• Bachelor's, or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar discipline.

• Direct experience with microarchitecture, instruction set design, or CPU pipeline optimization is 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

Working on solving verification challenges of memory management units that are being reused across several different generations of the Cores, as well as IO memory management unit. This includes hypervisor, virtualization, and guest virtualization.

BS/MS/Ph.D in EE, CE or CS

12+ years relevant experience with Core/CPU functional verification

8+ years direct experience on memory management verification

Deep understand of computer architecture

Seasoned developer using object oriented programing principles

In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for variable/ incentive compensation and/ or equity.  In addition, this role is eligible for a comprehensive, competitive benefits package which may include healthcare and retirement plans, paid time off, and more! 

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.

As an E-Verify employer, we use this system to confirm the employment eligibility of all new hires in accordance with federal law. All applicants will be required to complete a Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, upon hire. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job candidates and will comply with all E-Verify regulations.