Principal Silicon Verification Engineer - Bengaluru

Graphcore · Bengaluru

  • Experience12–14 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeunknown
  • Levelstaff
  • Posted16 Sept 2026

About Graphcore

Graphcore is hiring in Bengaluru in semiconductors electronics. This role looks for around 12+ years of experience.

The role

Staff-level principal silicon verification engineer role at an AI computing systems and semiconductor hardware company, responsible for silicon verification activities to help the silicon team deliver quality silicon. Requires System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux, verification experience in CPU and/or ASIC environments, verification planning, specification and functional coverage closure, and knowledge using UVM and SVA, plus DVCS like Git. Based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (work mode not stated).

Full job description

About Us

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.

Job Summary

Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

The Team

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon.

Responsibilities And Duties

Verification activities within the verification team Ensuring good communication between sites Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage Providing feedback to architects Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage Contributing to shared verification infrastructure

Candidate Profile

Essential

verification experience in relevant industry Proven leadership and planning skills Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux 12 – 14 years-experience in engineering background

Desirable

UVM SVA Assembly languages LLVM, GCC DVCS e.g. Git SGE or other DRMS XML and XPath/XSLT Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL