Graphcore

Delivers IPU-powered AI cloud services

Principal Silicon Verification Engineer

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Verification experience in a relevant industry.
Proven leadership and planning skills.
Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues.
Ability to research and solve complex problems.
Ability to present technical and functional knowledge and design experiments or projects that contribute to the overall direction of the team.
Ability to exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Ability to influence colleagues and explain difficult concepts.
Experience with the verification process in CPU and/or ASIC environments.
Experience with SystemVerilog, Python, C++, and Linux.
12–14 years of engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Perform verification activities within the verification team.
Ensure good communication between sites.
Plan verification, specify coverage, and close functional coverage.
Provide feedback to architects.
Generate tests and diagnose or triage failures.
Contribute to shared verification infrastructure.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with UVM.
Experience with SVA.
Experience with assembly languages.
Experience with LLVM and GCC.
Experience with distributed version control systems such as Git.
Experience with SGE or other distributed resource management systems.
Experience with XML and XPath/XSLT.
Experience with web programming, including HTML/DOM, JavaScript, and SQL.

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

About the Company

Graphcore

Delivers IPU-powered AI cloud services

Graphcore.ai focuses on building and delivering Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and related AI services for enterprises. It provides IPU-powered cloud services, pre-trained AI models, optimized inference engines, and APIs on a subscription basis with on-demand pricing and free tiers through cloud partners. The IPUs accelerate AI workloads and enable scalable, cost-efficient AI deployment in enterprise applications. The company differentiates itself through specialized IPU hardware and optimized software stack, plus partnerships with cloud providers to reach customers, rather than relying on generic hardware. The goal is to help businesses scale AI-powered products and operations efficiently by offering flexible, scalable compute and ready-to-use AI components.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $1.1B
Headquarters: Bristol, United Kingdom
Founded: 2016

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