Verification Team Lead

An exciting opportunity has just opened for a Senior / Lead Verification Engineer to join a cutting-edge team in Cambridge, UK, driving innovation in next-gen semiconductor projects

Location: Cambridge, UK

Duration: Permanent

Salary: Negotiable (depending on qualifications and experience)

Our client is expanding their DV team at a key growth stage, offering a rare opportunity to join early and genuinely shape verification methodology, standards, and technical direction as the team scales.

Position Overview

The work is focused on production-grade open-source silicon, including the Ibex RISC-V CPU and OpenTitan security platform, developed in collaboration with world-leading partners such as Google. This is real silicon used as a foundation for secure and scalable compute systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and debug block/system-level tests and testbenches using SystemVerilog and UVM


• Develop test and coverage plans for new and updated designs


• Triage and debug nightly regressions


• Review contributions to open-source projects


• Enhance test and CI infrastructure


• Collaborate on academic/industry publications


• Stay current with verification best practices and introduce improvements

Candidate Requirements

• 5+ years industry experience in design verification


• Strong SystemVerilog and UVM expertise


• Experience across the full verification cycle (planning to tape-out)


• Able to provide estimates and coordinate with project managers


• Comfortable in multidisciplinary, multi-organisation teams


• Familiar with Git and code review tools (GitHub, GitLab, Gerrit)


• Programming in C and/or Python for tests and automation


• Experience with multiple hardware block types


• Knowledge of security countermeasures (fault injection, side-channel attacks)


• Experience with RISC-V ISA or other instruction sets


• Familiarity with formal verification tools (e.g., JasperGold)


• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays


• Employer pension contribution


• Private medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life cover


• Opportunities to attend industry conferences and training

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