CareerPlan

CPU Verification Engineer (RISC-V)

Santa Clara, California, United States of AmericaFull-time$176k–$263k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design Verification Engineer validating CPU and SOC level micro-architectures to ensure launch readiness.

Role type

Senior IC CPU Verification Engineer (RISC-V)

Builds

CPU and System-on-Chip (SoC) designs

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU Architecture

Required skills

RISC-V instruction set architecture, Micro-processor verification, Cache coherence, Memory ordering and consistency, Prefetching, Branch prediction, Renaming, Speculative execution, Address translation, Random Instruction Sequencing (RIS), Formal verification, Assertions, Silicon bringup, Testbench development, Assembly code, Verification methodologies, Gate-level simulation, Coverage collection

Preferred skills

Leading small verification teams, Mixed signal verification, Debugging test failures

Technologies

Simulators, Coverage collection tools, Gate-level simulation tools, Waveform viewers

Responsibilities

Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans, Develop Verification environment (Stimulus, Checkers, Assertions, Trackers), Execute Verification Plans including Design Bring-up and Regressions, Debug test failures, Track and report DV progress using metrics

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC