Digital Verification Engineer (Cryptography)

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is expanding its Crypto & Security Competence Centre to develop next-generation security technologies and transform hardware verification with AI.

What you will do

• Verify digital hardware architectures for post-quantum cryptography IP, secure SoC subsystems, and cryptographic accelerators.
• Create, review, and maintain verification plans while tracking verification progress.
• Define and develop verification strategies, tests, and environments for security features and hardware co-processors.
• Apply emerging verification methodologies within existing hardware design and verification flows.
• Contribute to AI-driven verification automation, intelligent debug, automated test generation, and coverage closure.

Requirements

• BSc or MSc degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering.
• Some experience with SystemVerilog for testbench development and verification.
• Experience with UVM, including components, sequences, drivers, monitors, and scoreboards.
• Practical knowledge of constrained random verification, metrics-driven verification, functional coverage, and verification planning.
• Ability to write SystemVerilog Assertions for protocol and design checking.
• Experience analysing coverage results, closing functional and code coverage gaps, and debugging complex verification environments.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of formal verification methods.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge cryptography technologies supporting future cybersecurity.
• Help shape AI-based verification workflows and methodologies.
• Take ownership of complex projects from concept to silicon.
• Contribute to a growing organisation where technical input influences tools, processes, and direction.