Principal Silicon Verification Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/20/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
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About the Role
You will perform silicon verification activities that help deliver quality silicon. You will plan verification, specify and close functional coverage, generate tests, diagnose and triage failures, provide architectural feedback, contribute to shared verification infrastructure, communicate across sites, and investigate complex issues using multiple programming languages and technical methods.
Requirements
- Silicon verification
- Verification planning
- Functional coverage
- Test generation
- Failure diagnosis
- Failure triage
- Verification infrastructure
- CPU verification
- ASIC verification
- SystemVerilog
- Python
- C++
- Linux
- UVM
- SVA
- Assembly
- LLVM
- GCC
- Git
- SGE
- DRMS
- XML
- XPath
- XSLT
- HTML
- DOM
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Leadership
- Planning
- Root cause analysis
Responsibilities
- Perform silicon verification activities
- Communicate effectively between sites
- Plan verification and close functional coverage
- Provide feedback to architects
- Generate tests
- Diagnose and triage failures
- Contribute to shared verification infrastructure
- Research and solve complex problems
- Design experiments and projects
- Explain complex technical concepts