Entry level Hardware Developer - Austin, TX - 2027

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

Design Verification Engineer As a CPU/ASIC Verification Engineer, you will be part of a team that’s responsible for the pre-silicon functional and performance verification of our chipsets. You will work on planning, building, and executing the verification testplan for an area of our core, cache/nest subsystem, memory hierarchy, I/O subsystem, or other on-silicon IP used in our future IBM Power Systems and IBM Z Systems offerings. You will use state-of-the-art techniques to simulate and verify the designs of these custom microprocessor-based systems. The job uses both hardware and software engineering skills, and entails creating environments and methodologies for simulating the VHDL input, as well as analysis and problem debug. Verification is performed at various levels within the design hierarchy.

Responsibilities:

• Own the verification environments that will identify pre-silicon functional and/or performance issues for specific microprocessor component(s).
• Document verification environment details and communicate work progress.

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Required technical and professional expertise

A background in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with strong programming skills is required. Minimum Requirements:

• Understanding Computer Architectures, Digital System Design, and VLSI Systems
• Projects in RTL design using Verilog/VHDL
• Python, C/C++ skills • Inter-discipline design experience

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Processor or ASIC verification
• Understanding of industry-standard protocols (PCIe, CXL) and of modern CPU architectures (multi-level cache structures and coherence protocols, etc.)
• Understanding of Agile development processes
• Exposure to industry microprocessor designs (x86, ARM, or RISC-V)

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