CPU Core Design Verification Testbench Lead

Tenstorrent is an AI-computing company that sells AI hardware and licenses AI and RISC-V intellectual property.

Toronto, Canada
About Tenstorrent

Tenstorrent builds computers for AI, including AI processors, scalable server systems, and open-source software and compiler tooling. It also licenses AI and RISC-V IP for customers building customized silicon.

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About the Role

You will lead CPU core-level testbench development and evolve CVM-based verification infrastructure. You will plan functional verification, develop testbench components and stimulus, debug regressions, close coverage, and build Python and AI-agent tooling for verification analysis.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in CPU verification, CPU testbench development, or related digital design
  • CPU core-level testbench development experience
  • Out-of-order CPU microarchitecture knowledge
  • CVM methodology
  • UVM
  • RTL
  • Waveform, log, regression, and debug experience
  • Python
  • C++
  • RISC-V
  • Eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology

Responsibilities

  • Lead CPU core-level testbench development
  • Own and evolve CVM-based verification methodology and infrastructure
  • Plan and drive functional verification for CPU features, ISA behavior, and microarchitectural scenarios
  • Develop UVM, assembly, C/C++ stimulus, and C++ functional models
  • Debug regressions and close coverage
  • Improve testbenches across simulation, emulation, and post-silicon environments
  • Develop Python and AI-agent tooling for triage and root-cause analysis