Description
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.
Working within the Silicon verification team, you will be responsible for a wide range of tasks. Your main goal will be to help the silicon team meet the company's objectives for quality silicon delivery.
The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. You will ensure 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 include:
- 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
Essential requirements:
- Verification experience in a relevant industry
- Proven leadership and planning skills
- Highly motivated, self-starter, and team player
- Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues
- Ability to research and solve complex problems
- Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/projects that contribute to the overall direction of the team
- Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Highly influential on colleagues with the 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 of experience in an engineering background
Desirable skills:
- UVM
- SVA
- Assembly languages
- LLVM, GCC
- DVCS e.g. Git
- SGE or other DRMS
- XML and XPath/XSLT
- Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL