Verification Engineer

Job Title

Verification Engineer

Role Summary

Join the verification team building ML/AI integrated circuits for data-center scale inference. The role is based in Fractile's London or Bristol office and focuses on ensuring RTL releases meet functional requirements and tape-out quality.

You will work closely with modelling, system architecture, and RTL design teams to plan and execute verification, improve verification workflows and tooling, and bring software-driven approaches to hardware verification.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically 3+ years of relevant verification or software-for-hardware experience.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan and execute pre-silicon verification to validate RTL against specifications.
• Design and implement testbenches, stimulus, checkers, and coverage strategies.
• Read, debug and triage RTL (SystemVerilog) issues and debug waveforms.
• Collaborate with architecture, modelling and RTL teams to refine specs and verification scope.
• Improve verification workflows, tooling, and practices to increase tape-out quality and reduce cost.
• Contribute to verification infrastructure and software-driven verification processes.

Requirements

Must-have and preferred skills:

• Must-have: Strong software skills (Python or another object-oriented language such as C++).
• Must-have: Understanding of digital hardware concepts and ability to read and debug RTL in SystemVerilog.
• Must-have: Familiarity with waveform debugging.
• Candidates with UVM experience or a strong software background are encouraged to apply even without extensive RTL experience.
• Nice-to-have: Pre-silicon RTL verification, verification planning and execution from specification, building testbenches, stimulus creation, checker development, and coverage definition/closure.
• Nice-to-have: Transaction-level modelling (TLM), SystemC, SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA).
• Nice-to-have: Experience with cocotb, Verilator, Icarus Verilog, commercial EDA tools, or formal verification.
• Nice-to-have: Experience working in a monorepo environment and familiarity with build tools such as Bazel.
• Nice-to-have: Participation in architecture discussions and cross-discipline collaboration.

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.