Senior Verification Engineer - CPU

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Research & Development • $136,000 PA - $264,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Verification Engineer in NVIDIA's CPU Verification Team, you'll be a technical leader responsible for defining, planning, implementing, and executing the performance verification strategy for sophisticated CPU designs. This involves deep dives into CPU unit design specifications, implementation, and performance impact, collaborating with architects and design engineers. Responsibilities include drafting detailed performance test plans, creating scalable micros to validate features, building necessary infrastructure/tooling, and providing technical guidance to junior engineers. You'll work on multiple projects, focusing on testbench/scoreboard/stimulus development, regression debug, and coverage closure, supporting design, implementation, and system-level validation/debug. The role impacts product lines across consumer graphics, self-driving cars, and artificial intelligence.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience
  • CPU microarchitecture background
  • Workload analysis experience
  • Proficient in scripting (Perl/Python)
  • C/C++ working knowledge
  • Strong communication & teamwork
Good to have:
  • Leading performance validation of major CPU pipeline blocks
  • Experience with ARM A64, X86 architectures
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous benefits package
  • Equity

Job Details

We are now looking for a Senior Verification Engineer!

As a member of our CPU Verification Team, you will be responsible for a portion of the Design Verification, focusing on tasks such as testbench/scoreboard/stimulus development, regression debug, and coverage closure, supporting design, implementation, and system level validation/debug. This position offers you the opportunity to have real impact in a dynamic, technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence. We have crafted a team of outstanding people stretching around the globe, whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the platform for the future of computing.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Technical leadership role to define/plan/implement/execute performance verification strategy of sophisticated CPU designs

  • Ability to delve into lowest level details of CPU unit design specification, implementation and it's performance impact

  • Interactions with architect and design engineers to define detailed scope of micro architectural features

  • Draft detailed performance testplans

  • Define/Create scalable micros to validate features

  • Build infra/tooling needed for efficient performance correlation debug

  • Ability to lead and provide detailed technical guidance to junior engineers

  • Agility to work on multiple tasks/projects

What we need to see:

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years of experience

  • Background with CPU micro architecture

  • Experience with workload analysis

  • Proficient of script language like Perl, Python

  • Working knowledge of C/C++

  • Good communication skills and ability & desire to work as a team player are a must

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

  • Experience leading performance validation of major blocks of CPU pipeline

  • Experience with ARM A64, X86 Architectures

With competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us and, due to unprecedented growth, our best-in-class engineering teams are rapidly growing. If you're a creative and autonomous engineer with a real passion for technology, we want to hear from you.

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The base salary range is 136,000 USD - 264,500 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits. NVIDIA accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.

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