Senior Verification Engineer

Job Title

Senior Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Lead pre-silicon RTL verification for Fractile's ML/AI inference IC products, working closely with modelling, system architecture and RTL design teams to ensure functional correctness and tape-out quality. This role focuses on verification planning, testbench development and cross-discipline collaboration to drive high-quality RTL releases.

Experience Level

Senior — preferred 6+ years of relevant industry experience in RTL verification, software-driven hardware verification, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Execute and improve verification strategy, tools and workflows to maximize functional quality and reduce time-to-tape-out.

• Define verification plans from specifications and set coverage goals.
• Design and implement testbenches and verification environments (UVM, cocotb, SystemC, etc.).
• Create stimulus, checkers and assertions; develop directed and randomized tests.
• Debug RTL using waveforms and simulation to identify and resolve functional defects.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL design and modelling teams on specification and verification closures.
• Improve automation, monorepo workflows and integration between hardware and software toolchains.

Requirements

Key technical requirements (must-haves) and desirable skills (nice-to-have).

• Must-have: Strong software skills — Python or another object-oriented language (e.g. C++).
• Must-have: Solid understanding of digital hardware concepts and ability to read and debug RTL in SystemVerilog.
• Must-have: Familiarity with waveform debugging and root-cause analysis.
• Must-have: Proven track record in fast-paced, high-performance delivery teams and ownership of verification work.
• Nice-to-have: Hands-on pre-silicon RTL verification experience (UVM, SystemC or equivalent).
• Nice-to-have: Experience with cocotb, Verilator, Icarus Verilog, commercial EDA tools, or formal verification.
• Nice-to-have: Transaction-level modelling, coverage definition/closure, checker creation and functional modelling of hardware blocks.
• Note: Some roles may require export-control eligibility checks; additional screening may apply.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Fractile

Headquarters: London, UK

Fractile is on a mission to revolutionize AI by developing silicon, systems, and software that enable the fastest execution of advanced models at lower costs. Established in 2022, the company has rapidly expanded, fostering a collaborative culture in its London and Bristol offices. With a focus on innovation in ML/AI IC product development, Fractile combines hardware and software to deliver high-impact solutions for data center applications.