CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer

Location: On-site in Guadalajara, Mexico. Permanent, unrestricted right to work in Mexico is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience with digital logic design, including instruction set execution, ALUs, control units, registers, memory, and system buses.
• Programming and scripting experience with SystemVerilog, C++, and at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced English level and permanent, unrestricted authorization to work in Mexico.

Nice to have

• Experience with Synopsys simulators.
• Hands-on experience developing reusable and scalable UVM-based testbenches.
• Experience defining validation strategies based on architectural and design insights.

What you will do

• Lead pre-silicon functional verification for complex CPU microarchitecture blocks and top-level subsystems.
• Develop verification plans covering corner cases, stress scenarios, functional coverage, code coverage, and assertion coverage.
• Build and enhance scalable UVM-based constrained-random environments, including testbenches, agents, sequences, checkers, and scoreboards.
• Implement stimulus and SystemVerilog assertion-based verification, and execute block-level and system-level simulations.
• Debug RTL and testbench failures using simulation tools, waveforms, and formal methods, performing root-cause analysis with architects and designers.
• Improve verification methodologies and infrastructure, document strategies and results, and mentor junior engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a worldwide silicon engineering organization developing and integrating SoCs, CPU cores, and critical IP.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, post-silicon, performance modeling, formal verification, emulation, and prototyping teams.
• Full-time experienced-hire position on Shift 1 in Mexico.
• Employment practices follow local equal-opportunity and ethical hiring requirements; no recruitment or hiring fees are charged.