Silicon Verification Engineer (ML/AI)

Location: Based in either the London or Bristol office in the UK

Company

hirify.global is a startup founded in 2022 developing chips and systems for high-speed inference of frontier AI models, targeting thousands of tokens per second and long-context workloads.

What you will do

• Verify ML/AI integrated circuits for scale-out data-centre applications through pre-silicon RTL verification.
• Plan and execute verification from specification, including testbench development, stimulus creation, functional modelling, checker creation, and coverage definition and closure.
• Read and debug SystemVerilog RTL and waveforms while improving tape-out quality and reducing development costs.
• Collaborate with modelling, system architecture, RTL design, hardware, software, silicon, and modelling teams.
• Contribute to specification, architecture, verification methodology, and working-practice discussions.
• Drive verification work with ownership in a fast-paced, high-performance delivery environment.

Requirements

• Ideally 6+ years of experience and a proven track record in pre-silicon RTL verification within high-performance delivery organisations.
• Strong software skills, including Python or another object-oriented language such as C++.
• Understanding of digital hardware concepts.
• Ability to read and debug RTL in SystemVerilog and familiarity with debugging waveforms.
• Software mindset for solving hardware problems, with attention to detail and rigorous execution.
• Passion for verification and willingness to challenge established hardware-development practices.
• Ability to work openly and collaboratively across hardware and software disciplines.
• Candidates with UVM or a strong software background may apply even without an RTL background.

Nice to have

• Experience with transaction-level modelling using UVM, SystemC, or another methodology.
• SystemVerilog Assertions.
• Fluency in multiple software languages.
• Open-source silicon-development tools, including Cocotb, Verilator, or Icarus Verilog.
• Commercial EDA tools and formal verification.
• Working in a monorepo environment alongside software.
• Bazel familiarity; it is the chosen tool but is not expected.
• Experience contributing to architecture discussions.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, ambitious, open, and collaborative team with ownership and agency to drive work forward.
• Rapid iteration with direct collaboration with top leadership on ambitious hardware timelines.
• Close integration across hardware, software, silicon, and modelling teams.
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity ownership.
• Private medical, dental and vision coverage, contributory pension, 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and life/critical illness insurance.
• Inclusive and diverse office environment with a commitment to equal employment opportunity.