Nuvacore is building a ground-up high performance, low-power CPU for next-generation compute workloads. We are seeking Verification Engineers at multiple levels — from Senior Engineer to Principal level — to help prove the correctness of the Nuvacore CPU. As part of the design verification (DV) team, you will help verify by building the test plans, environments, and checkers that find deep bugs in the pipeline long before silicon, working shoulder-to-shoulder with architecture and RTL design.

Drive the verification scope, strategy, and test plans for the CPU at unit and/or top level of the CPU design.

Build, maintain, and scale robust verification environments — stimulus generators, checkers, transactors, and coverage — that exercise the pipeline end to end.

Test & Debug: Generate complex directed and random tests in assembly, C, or random instruction sequences (RIS) to expose corner cases such as speculation, hazards, flushes, and retirement ordering.

Performance Verification: Partner with architects to correlate RTL against performance models, hunting throughput, stall, and branch-prediction-accuracy issues.

Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.





15+ years (Principal) or 4+ years (Senior Engineer) of design-verification experience, ideally on a CPU or complex digital design.

Robust knowledge of CPU micro-architecture and digital logic — pipelines, out-of-order execution, and branch prediction.

Hands-on functional verification: test plans, testbenches, checkers, transactors, and coverage.

Proficiency in C/C++ and/or SystemVerilog, plus a scripting language (Python;

Experience writing and debugging tests in assembly for CPU verification.

Experience on one or more of Front-end / execution-unit verification, load/store cache verification, SoC/System verification, Debug/Power mgmt verification.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. #

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