CPU Design & Verification Engineer — New College Grad

What you'll do

• Develop and debug CPU verification plans, tests, environments, checkers, and coverage, or contribute to RTL and micro-architecture design.
• Help analyze performance and correlate RTL with performance models; identify design issues and support failure root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with architecture, verification, and physical design teams on simulation, emulation, bring-up, and CPU goals.

What they ask for

• BS or MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience; recent or upcoming graduate.
• Coursework or project experience in digital logic and computer architecture, and strong CPU micro-architecture fundamentals.
• Proficiency in C/C++, SystemVerilog, and/or Verilog, plus familiarity with a scripting language.
• Exposure through coursework, internships, or projects to functional verification concepts or RTL design/coding.

Nice to have

• Internship or project experience in CPU or complex digital design, verification, or RTL development.
• Exposure to RISC-V, ARM64, or x86 ISA; assembly programming; constrained-random verification; formal verification; emulation/FPGA; or silicon bring-up.

Pay

USD 140,000–200,000 per-year-salary; base salary not specified

Tools

C/C++, SystemVerilog, Verilog, Python, Perl, RISC-V, ARM64, x86

AI focus

Designing and verifying a general-purpose CPU core for AI infrastructure and agentic computing.