Senior/Principal Design Verification Engineer

lowRISC CIC Senior/Principal Design Verification Engineer Cambridge, UK, Full-time, Permanent, Salary: £62,708 - £96,632 dependent on experience The Company Six years ago, lowRISC (a community interest company) took up the challenge of helping to bring the world’s first commercially viable, collaborative, open source silicon root of trust (RoT) design, OpenTitan, to market. We aimed to use the project as the proving ground for our general development framework: the Silicon Commons. This innovative workflow merges open source software development best practices with an industrial-strength chip design methodology, enabling the creation of reusable, high quality silicon IP by our diverse coalition of corporate and academic partners. Join us and be part of a company positively changing the future of silicon design. The Role In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply industrial-strength design verification to high quality open source code bases. Your focus will be on the verification of the range of open source designs we are producing for future iterations of OpenTitan, including a RISC-V core (Ibex), a special purpose CPU for cryptographic operations, an AES accelerator, and various peripherals (such as USB, I2C, and SPI). You will: Design, implement and debug block-level and system-level tests and testbenches using SystemVerilog and UVM. Stay up to date with the latest best practices and bring innovations to lowRISC. Develop test and coverage plans for new or updated silicon designs. Actively review contributions to our open source projects. Triage and debug nightly regressions. Contribute to the ongoing design and development of our test and continuous integration infrastructure. Collaborate with partners to author papers for academic and industry conferences. Candidate Requirements Essential: 5 years+ prior industry experience of design verification including significant SystemVerilog and UVM usage. Experience across the full verification cycle from initial planning to final tape out. Confident providing work estimates and coordinating work with a project manager. Comfortable working with engineers across multiple organisations in multidisciplinary teams. Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience. Desirable: Broad experience range with background across multiple types of hardware blocks. Understanding of security countermeasures against attacks such as fault injection or side-channel analysis. Experience working with the RISC-V ISA or other instruction sets. Familiarity with Git and code review using services such as GitHub, GitLab, or Gerrit. Programming using C and/or Python in tests and automation. Formal verification with tools such as JasperGold. For the Principal role: Experience with leading a team or being a primary technical contributor in a major project. Benefits lowRISC offers a generous benefits package including: 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays. 12.5% employer’s pension contribution (subject to employee salary sacrifice of 6%). 4 week paid sabbatical after 4 years of service. Private Medical Insurance, Group Income Protection Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Life Insurance. The opportunity to attend appropriate Industry conferences and/or training. We are open to discussions about hybrid working. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from eligible and suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity/paternity. If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process, please let us know by emailing hr@lowrisc.org.

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