Senior Staff Engineer CPU Front-End Verification

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 build and maintain UVM testbenches for CPU front-end units, create directed and constrained-random tests, and develop C++ reference models. You will execute verification plans, analyze coverage, and verify complex fetch, prediction, cache, and TLB edge cases.

Requirements

  • CPU front-end verification experience
  • SystemVerilog
  • UVM
  • C++
  • Unit-level testbench development
  • Instruction fetch verification
  • Branch prediction verification
  • Instruction cache or TLB verification
  • Transactor, predictor, and scoreboard development
  • RTL debugging

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain UVM testbenches for instruction fetch units, branch predictors, and related sub-blocks
  • Develop constrained-random and directed tests for speculation, redirects, fetch bubbles, and cache and TLB interactions
  • Develop and maintain C++ reference models and predictors
  • Execute verification plans and track functional and code coverage
  • Verify edge cases and drive coverage closure