Senior Silicon Design Verification Engineer, Cloud Silicon

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

This role focuses on the verification of custom silicon solutions, specifically Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are designed to handle Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads. The engineer will be responsible for the full verification life-cycle, including planning, test execution, and coverage closure, ensuring the reliability and performance of these AI/ML-focused hardware components. While the role involves AI/ML workloads and accelerators, the core craft is silicon design verification, not the direct development or research of AI models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Plan the verification of digital design blocks and interact with design engineers to identify important verification scenarios.
  2. Identify and write all types of coverage measures for stimulus and corner-cases.
  3. Debug tests with design engineers to deliver functionally correct design blocks.
  4. Measure to identify verification holes and to show progress towards tape-out.
  5. Create a constrained-random verification environment using SystemVerilog and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM).

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in verification, verifying digital logic at RTL level using SystemVerilog or Specman/E for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or ASICs.
  • Experience in verification and debug of IP/subsystem/SoCs in the networking domain such as packet processing, bandwidth management, congestion control.
  • Experience verifying digital systems using standard IP components/interconnects (e.g., microprocessor cores, hierarchical memory subsystems).

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
  • Experience with industry-standard simulators, revision control systems, and regression systems.
  • Experience in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) accelerators or vector processing units.
  • Experience with the full verification life cycle.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • meeting stringent AI/ML performance and accuracy goals
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads on Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware
  • Experience in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) accelerators or vector processing units