Senior Design Verification Engineer

An exciting opportunity has just opened for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to join a cutting-edge team in Cambridge, UK, driving innovation in next gen semiconductor projects

Role

Senior Design Verification Engineer

Location

Cambridge, UK

Duration

Permanent

Salary

Negotiable (depending on qualifications and experience)

Position Overview

As a Senior Design Verification Engineer, you will apply industrial strength verification to both system and block level designs, including RISC V cores, OTBN (cryptographic CPU), AES accelerators, and peripherals like USB, I2C, and SPI.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and debug block/system level tests and testbenches using SystemVerilog and UVM
• Develop test and coverage plans for new and updated designs
• Triage and debug nightly regressions
• Review contributions to open source projects
• Enhance test and CI infrastructure
• Collaborate on academic/industry publications
• Stay current with verification best practices and introduce improvements

Candidate Requirements Essential

• 5+ years industry experience in design verification
• Strong SystemVerilog and UVM expertise
• Experience across the full verification cycle (planning to tape out)
• Able to provide estimates and coordinate with project managers
• Comfortable in multidisciplinary, multi organisation teams
• Familiar with Git and code review tools (GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit)
• Programming in C and/or Python for tests and automation
• Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline or equivalent

Desirable

• Experience with multiple hardware block types
• Knowledge of security countermeasures (fault injection, side channel attacks)
• Experience with RISC V ISA or other instruction sets
• Familiarity with formal verification tools (e.g., JasperGold)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• Employer pension contribution
• Private medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life cover
• Opportunities to attend industry conferences and training

If you could be interested for this position, please get in touch and share your CV with me