❓ About SiPearl…

Founded in 2019 with the support of the European Union 🇪🇺, SiPearl embodies Europe’s dream of mastering the technological heart of its supercomputers: the microprocessor.

SiPearl is building Rhea, the high-performance, low-power European microprocessor dedicated to supercomputing and AI inference.

This new generation of microprocessors will first target EuroHPC Joint Undertaking ecosystem, which is deploying world-class supercomputing infrastructures in Europe for solving major challenges in medical research, artificial intelligence, security, energy management and climate with a reduced carbon footprint.

SiPearl is working in close collaboration with its 30 partners from the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium - leading names from the scientific community, supercomputing centers and industry - which are its stakeholders, future clients and end-users.

SiPearl employs more than 190 people in:

• France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis),
• Germany (Duisburg)
• Spain (Barcelona)
• and Italy (Bologna)

SiPearl is part of French Tech Next 120 programme 2024 class.

💻 About the role

In this role, you will be instrumental in verifying products built around the highest-performance cores and the latest standard protocols (AXI/CHI, PCIe, DDR, HBM).

As a verification engineer, you’ll collaborate with architecture, design, physical implementation, and software teams to ensure that SiPearl’s systems perform at the highest level.

Your tasks may involve high-level modeling, UVM, HW/SW Co-Debug, Simulation Acceleration support, providing abundant opportunities for technical and personal development.

🎯 What a regular day at the job might look like

• Read and analyze system requirements and architecture requirement documents.
• Plan functional verification activities for a given subsystem/functionality.
• Develop and maintain verification environments in SystemVerilog/UVM/SystemC/C++.
• Write tests in embedded C and conduct debugging.
• Participate in verification methodology improvements.
• Plan project milestones and deliverables related to functional verification within SiPearl and with external partners.
• Organize work and deliverables among various skills, internal and external teams.
• Mentor and train the next generation of verification engineers.
• Manage teams from external partners (opportunities available)

🔍 What would make you succeed in this role

• Verification and/or design of complex SoC.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: SystemVerilog/UVM/VHDL, SystemC/C++, Embedded C.
• Some prior experience in Firmware-based verification is desirable.
• Experience in metrics-driven verification.
• Familiarity with scripting languages like Bash/Perl/Python.
• Experience with verification management tools.
• Fluency in English is a prerequisite for success in this role, as effective communication in English is essential for collaboration and ensuring the seamless execution of responsibilities.

➕ Experience in the following is a plus

• Firmware-based verification.
• Metrics-driven verification.
• Use of Git/Gitlab.
• Familiarity with AMBA and other ARM IPs.

Dear candidate, even if you consider you do not fulfill all the qualifications mentioned above, please still apply and share with us why you believe you would be a good fit.

Recruitment process

✔️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)

✔️ AssessFirst personality test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45’)

✔️ 2 Technical interviews (1h each)

✔️ Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 min)
 

💡 Benefits and conditions :

• Contract: Permanent Contract (CDI)

• Benefits: annual bonus; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); 5 days per year of remote work from any EU location; illimited access and pre-paid sessions with a practitioner of your choice on our mental health partner app, moka.care; technical, linguistic and personal development trainings; BSPCE 

• Work model: Hybrid (2 days/week remote)

• 📍 Office: This role is open for our locations in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy, Grenoble and Sophia Antipolis), Spain (Barcelona) and Germany (Duisburg)
  

• Awesome activities such as: Hackathons, Training Challenges, Quarterly Kick-off sessions, team events, Company events and much more

• ⚠️ Please note that while we do not provide VISA Sponsorship, we are committed to assisting international candidates with the visa application process to the best of our ability.

Are you curious to learn more about us?

• Follow us on LinkedIn to stay updated with our latest news
• Get updated about our recruiting activities: Sipearl careers webpage
• Get to know a bit more about our team culture: Welcome to the jungle

At SiPearl, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that thrives on the strength of varied perspectives and backgrounds. We recruit talent based on merit, experience, and alignment with our company’s goals and values.