Overview As a Verification architect at SiFive, you will ensure the fidelity of configurable CPU cores and IPs across high-impact use cases. You'll shape verification strategies from early feature development through design-for-verification, collaborating with architects and DV teams to improve coverage and quality. You work to ensure SiFive's RISC-V cores operate correctly in diverse environments like autonomous driving and 5G. This role offers the chance to influence state-of-the-art verification practices and push the pace of IP development. You will join a mission-driven team delivering leading-edge processors that scale across generations.
Compensation / Benefits- variable/incentive compensation
- equity
- healthcare
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- base pay plus incentives
Responsibilities- Adopt advanced verification methodologies for in-house designs
- Understand system components and provide verification feedback to architecture-for-verification
- Create verification strategies for features and components
- Participate in microarchitecture design phase for design-for-verification
- Brainstorm corner-case scenarios with Design and DV teams to improve verification quality
- Collaborate with DV leads to ensure test plans capture architecture and design intents
- Ensure verification quality through coverage metrics and related measures
- Leverage CPU core experience to strengthen verification of cores and IPs
Key requirements- years in related fields
- BS, MS, or PhD in EE, CE, or CS (as applicable)
- Direct experience with microarchitecture, ISA design, or CPU pipeline optimization
- Thorough understanding of high-level verification flow (test plans, test generation, failure analysis, coverage, closure)
- Strong analytical abilities and troubleshooting skills
- Good interpersonal skills to influence cross-disciplinary teams
- Experience solving verification challenges of memory management units and IO memory management units
- Deep understanding of computer architecture
- Seasoned OO programming experience
- Memory management verification experience (8+ years)
- strong communication and collaboration across disciplines
- problem-solving orientation
- influencing and mentoring abilities
- microarchitecture
- instruction set design
- CPU pipeline optimization
