Fractile - Verification Engineer

• As a Silicon Verification Engineer, you will be reporting to the Director of Frontend Silicon and will be based in either our Bristol or London office in the UK. We are looking for you to take an active role in building world-class ML/AI IC products for scale-out to data centre applications. We are looking for someone who is passionate about verification – not someone content to go through the motions, but rather looking to push the field further forwards. If you get excited about bringing software concepts to hardware workflows, and enjoy improving established practices to increase tape-out quality and bring down costs, then this is the role for you. • You’ll work closely with colleagues across modelling, system architecture, and RTL design to ensure our RTL releases meet the highest standards of functional quality. That includes contributing to discussions around specification, architecture, and the workflows that connect them. Your work will be integral to delivering our highly disruptive and ambitious product. • We look for engineers with the following mindset: • Software mindset for solving hardware problems • The desire to be in a high impact role in a small team • A disrupter of the “status quo” of hardware development • Eagerness to contribute to and improve working practices and help build connections between hardware and software teams • Detail-focused, with rigour as the baseline for all work • Humility, desire to learn • Happy to be part of a fast-paced, open and collaborative environment • Python preferred, other languages acceptable • Ability to read and debug RTL in SystemVerilog • Familiarity with debugging waveforms • Verification planning and execution from specification • Building testbenches • Stimulus creation • Functional modelling of hardware blocks • Checker creation • Coverage definition/closure • Whether in UVM, SystemC or another methodology • SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) • Software fluency in multiple languages • Cocotb (used for all our testbench collateral), Verilator, Icarus Verilog • Commercial EDA tools • Formal verification • Bazel is our chosen tool, familiarity is not expected • Contributing to architecture discussions • How we work • Ownership and execution: you will have full agency to drive your work forward • Rapid iteration: we all work directly with top leadership to move from idea to hardware on ambitious timelines • Full-stack engagement: hardware, software, silicon, and modelling teams all work closely together to create a product with generational impact • Optimistic and pragmatic: we possess the will to win, and to do the hard work to get us there • Team player mentality: the mission is bigger than any of us, and we have the curiosity and technical focus to see the best idea shipped, no matter who’s it is • Founded in 2022, team of 100+ which is expanding rapidly • Modern, open offices in London and Bristol • Collaborative, problem-solving culture built on deep curiosity, entrepreneurial initiative and technical fluency • Export control and security clearance • Certain roles may involve working on technologies subject to export restrictions. Applicants may be required to undergo additional eligibility checks to ensure compliance with applicable law.