CPU Silicon Validation Engineer

About the role

- Work closely with CPU RTL and DV teams to understand changes to our CPU designs and to engineer test content for new CPU features - Create CPU validation test plans, ensuring all key features are covered - Develop SW workloads to stress test the CPU and integrate these into our existing validation environments - Help maintain and improve our random test generator by adding support for new CPU architectural and microarchitectural features - Drive the bring-up and execution of our silicon validation tools in pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards) - Debug functional silicon failures closely with Design and DV counterparts

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
• Understanding of CPU architecture including instruction sets, pipelines, caches, and memory subsystems
• Experience with assembly programming (ARM ISA is a plus)
• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals including kernel execution, privilege levels, memory management, and virtual machines
• Good understanding of the logic design and verification process
• Background in silicon bring-up and system debug experience is a plus
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Minimum BS
• Academic coursework in CPU architecture
• Experience in programming in C or C++ and scripting in Python or Perl

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