What are the responsibilities and job description for the IP Design Verification Engineer position at Ampere?
Description
Invent the future with us.
Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.
As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply!
About The Role
As an IP Design Verification Engineer, you will focus on verification of Ampere IPs and SoCs. Your work will ensure that our IPs meet functional, performance, and power requirements of our products. You will be at the forefront of innovation, collaborating closely with architecture, design, and post-silicon teams and helping us deliver leading edge, high performance, and energy efficient products.
What You'll Achieve
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $147,000 and $220,000, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $159,000 and $239,000.
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.
Benefits Highlights Include
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
Invent the future with us.
Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.
As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply!
About The Role
As an IP Design Verification Engineer, you will focus on verification of Ampere IPs and SoCs. Your work will ensure that our IPs meet functional, performance, and power requirements of our products. You will be at the forefront of innovation, collaborating closely with architecture, design, and post-silicon teams and helping us deliver leading edge, high performance, and energy efficient products.
What You'll Achieve
- Define strategy and requirements for block level and chip level testing infrastructure.
- Create test plans for unit-level and chip-level verification
- Design and implement test benches and verification environment
- Develop random test generators to generate tests, debug failures, evaluate coverage of design
- Define post-si validation plans and debug post-silicon system level failures
- 3 years of hardware verification experience.
- Knowledge of high-performance CPUs and System level architecture/microarchitecture for any industry-standard architecture.
- Experience in verifying complex IPs.
- Experience in building SVTB/SV UVM/OVM based verification environments and using industry standard HDL languages (e.g., System Verilog) and simulation tools.
- Programming experience in languages common to the industry (e.g., C, C , Perl, Python) and x86 or ARM assembly language.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills, attention to detail and eagerness to learn.
- Excellent written, verbal and technical communication skills.
- Familiarity with using AI tools to boost productivity.
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science & 5 years of related experience or MS degree & 3 years
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $147,000 and $220,000, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $159,000 and $239,000.
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life.
Benefits Highlights Include
- Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401K retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future
- Unlimited Flextime and 10 paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
- A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
Salary : $147,000 - $220,000