Verification Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, New York City or San Francisco Bay Area, California

Efficient’s Hardware Verification Engineer will contribute to the verification of our chip. This position is a unique opportunity to work as a digital designer with a highly interdisciplinary team, realizing our product, and helping shape the future of Efficient’s technology.  If you are an engineer who wants to be part of an intensely skilled team and wants to have an immediate impact on the design of our chip, this is for you!

Key Responsibilities 

• Functionally verify product features using industry-standard simulation tools

• Collect coverage metrics and other statistical data to track verification progress

• Develop verification methodologies and strategies for different product features

• Build reusable testbench infrastructure to verify implemented features

• Maintain and contribute to continuous integration infrastructure for testing

• Assist in the development of documentation for products features and integration

• Assist in the implementation of product features at the RTL-level targeting silicon and FPGA implementations

• Contribute to  the design and implementation of design-for-test features in RTL

• Interact with physical design team for pre-silicon verification

• Work with physical design team to resolve RTL-level issues leading to DRC violations

Required Qualifications & Experience Requirements 

• Must be an excellent hardware verification engineer with prior experience verifying a portion of a design for tape-out.

• 2+ years of verification experience in industry.

• Deep understanding of various verification methodologies and constructs, including SystemVerilog assertion language, constraint-random testing (CRT), and unified verification methodology (UVM).

• Experience with designing verification plans

• Experience running industry-standard simulation tools and collecting coverage metrics

• Experience with designing and implementing features in RTL.

• Experience with continuous integration and testing of digital designs

• Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills 

• Good problem solving skills

Desired Qualifications & Experience Requirements 

• Experience with formal verification methodologies and corresponding software tools

• Experience with power and energy verification methodologies

About Efficient Corporation: 

Efficient is a chip company developing a general-purpose computing platform for intelligence at the extreme edge. Efficient’s technology increases on-device compute efficiency by orders of magnitude, and thereby enables pervasive intelligence throughout environments that are unreachable with today’s processor designs. Efficient is developing an ultra-low-power general purpose processor that dramatically reduces energy without compromising programmability — imagine a vision-based sensor that can perform AI functions for 10 years on a single AA battery. In addition, Efficient is building a fully integrated software and compiler stack that supports migration of high-level language code to the Efficient chip platform with no required re-writes.

Efficient was established in 2022 as a spinout of Carnegie Mellon University and is currently building a world-class team of hardware and software engineers spanning from silicon implementation to compilers. With seed funding secured, a portfolio of patent-protected IP, and substantial progress on hardware and software development, EfficientAI is moving quickly toward delivering first silicon in early- to mid-2024.. 

More Information:

Find out more about our story at https://www.efficient.computer 

Efficient offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.  

To apply for this role, please email jobs@efficient.computer along with your resume and a little about yourself.