Senior CPU Design Verification Engineer

Job description

Job Description: 

Do Something Wonderful

At Intel, we put silicon at the center of the world’s most meaningful innovations. From personal computing and AI to cloud-scale data centers and edge platforms, our processors power technologies that touch billions of lives. If you’re passionate about building world-class silicon at massive scale, we want to build the future with you.

The Team

You’ll join Intel’s All Cores Engineering (ACE) organization, the team responsible for designing and delivering Intel’s industry‑leading CPU cores. Within ACE, the Atom group focuses on high‑efficiency, performance‑per‑watt optimized cores that enable everything from client platforms to emerging edge and scalable solutions.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role with direct impact on next‑generation CPU silicon.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior CPU Design Verification Engineer you will play a critical role in ensuring architectural correctness, functional robustness, and power‑efficient performance of Intel’s Atom CPU designs before first silicon.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead pre‑silicon functional verification of complex CPU and SoC logic to ensure full compliance with architectural and microarchitectural specifications.
• Develop and execute verification plans, testbenches, and SystemVerilog/UVM environments, ensuring comprehensive functional and coverage closure.
• Define, run, and analyze system‑level simulations to uncover functional, performance, power, and corner‑case issues.
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