CPU Core Pre-Silicon Validation/Verification Engineer

Join Intel's Full Chip Timing (FCT) Design Automation team as a CPU Core Pre-Silicon Validation/Verification Engineer. This role is pivotal in ensuring seamless timing closure and optimization across the backend flow, contributing to the development of world-changing technology that enriches lives globally.

Responsibilities:

• Perform functional verification of CPU logic to meet specification requirements.
• Develop IP verification plans, test benches, and verification environments to ensure coverage of CPU microarchitecture specifications.
• Execute verification plans and run system simulation models to verify design, analyze power and timing, and uncover bugs.
• Replicate, root cause, and debug issues in the pre-silicon environment.
• Implement corrective measures to resolve failing tests.
• Collaborate with CPU architects, RTL developers, and physical design teams to enhance verification of complex features and meet functional, performance, and power goals.
• Document test plans and drive technical reviews with design and architecture teams.
• Maintain and improve existing functional verification infrastructure and methodology.
• Participate in defining architecture and microarchitecture features of the CPU being designed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 1+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's Degree in the same fields.
• 6+ months of experience in pre-silicon verification, software/programming languages, or System Verilog/Verilog/VHDL.

Skills:

• Proficiency in software/programming languages (C, C++, C#, Visual Basic/.NET, Perl, Python, Java).
• Experience with System Verilog/Verilog/VHDL, Verification, Validation, and/or VCS or similar Simulator.
• Knowledge of computer architecture and microarchitecture.
• Experience with coverage-driven validation and IP/SOC ASIC Validation.
• Familiarity with Specman E, System Verilog/OVM/UVM, and x86 core architecture.