CPU Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer

Job Overview

As a CPU Pre‑Silicon Verification Engineer, you will help ensure the quality, functionality, and readiness of Intel’s next‑generation CPU designs. In this role, you develop and execute validation strategies that verify complex CPU designs before silicon manufacturing, working across architecture, design, verification, and platform teams to identify and resolve issues early in the product lifecycle.

• Define, develop, and execute pre‑silicon validation plans for Intel CPU core designs.
• Validate CPU functionality, microarchitecture behavior, and system‑level feature interactions across simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments.
• Develop validation content, test scenarios, and infrastructure to improve coverage and identify functional issues early.
• Apply coverage‑driven validation techniques to ensure comprehensive verification of complex processor designs.
• Review architecture and design changes to assess validation impacts, risks, schedules, and test requirements.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, and platform engineering teams to optimize product quality and validation effectiveness.
• Perform debug, root‑cause analysis, and failure triage for functional issues discovered during validation.
• Develop and enhance validation methodologies, automation frameworks, checkers, monitors, and validation tools.
• Analyze validation results, publish findings, and provide recommendations to improve future designs and validation strategies.
• Contribute to silicon readiness activities by identifying and resolving issues before manufacturing.
• Support end‑to‑end product development across multiple phases of the CPU lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and5+years of experience in pre‑silicon verification and/or front‑end.
• Master’s degree in the same field and3+years of experience in pre‑silicon verification and/or front‑end.
• Proficiency in software/programming languages such as C, C++, Visual Basic/.NET, Perl, Python, Java.
• Experience with System Verilog/Verilog/VHDL, verification, validation and/or VCS or similar simulators.
• Experience developing comprehensive pre‑silicon validation test plans, translating architecture and design specifications into validation objectives, test scenarios, coverage models, execution strategies, and sign‑off criteria.
• Preferred:
  Experience with computer architecture and micro‑architecture.
• Preferred:
  Experience with coverage‑driven validation.
• Preferred:
  Experience in IP/SOC ASIC validation.
• Preferred:
  Experience in SpecmanE and/or OVM/UVM.
• Preferred:
  Knowledge of x86 core architecture and instruction set.

Intel offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive pay, stock bonuses, health benefits, retirement plans, and vacation time. Additional details are available in Intel’s benefits program information.

Annual Salary Range (US):$–$USD. The range represents the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations.

Job Type: Experienced Hire – Shift1 (United States of America)
Primary

Location:

Folsom, California, US

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.