ASIC Verification Design Engineer, Bristol

Job Description

Imagine a world where you are at the forefront of engineer-led innovation without layers of product planning, marketing, and sales to get between you and success. We talk directly to world class traders within Jump as our customers, so there is a direct, trusted relationship that allows efficient communication.

We are a well-funded, privately owned company with a silicon design team focused on developing world-class trading platforms. The technology that we architect and deliver is all used internally to solve problems to give us the edge in the quantitative trading industry.

We operate in a globally competitive landscape where performance counts. The exciting mix of low latency and high throughput coupled with machine learning systems allows traders to be highly productive in ways that do not exist commercially.

Our small and talented team is responsible for the entire process from architecture and specification, through to design, test and bringing up of a final product on a board in production. We have achieved excellent results to date by hiring the best and focusing. We have seen proven success in a shorter time scale than is typical at larger tech firms. Enjoy the satisfaction that comes with seeing your work actively trading in one of the most technologically advanced fields anywhere.

Finance experience is not essential as we will give you the opportunity to learn everything you need. What we are looking for are talented, flexible engineers to join our growing team in Bristol.

This role is for a verification design engineer with experience of multiple complex digital design projects. The successful candidate must have a pragmatic approach to problem solving with a broad range of technical skills, a passion for learning and the motivation to push for progress both individually and collectively. As a small team, verification is tightly integrated to all aspects of the design process providing an exciting opportunity to learn and contribute in all areas of the creative process from architecture, software, implementation and infrastructure. The role will involve working closely with trading teams providing a unique opportunity to learn a new and fast moving market sector.

What you'll do:

• Work within a small multi-disciplinary hardware design team to ensure the success of leading-edge ASIC/SoC developments.
• Contribute to the continued development of the design productivity tooling and workflows.
• Stay informed of the latest developments in design and verification techniques.
• Develop creative solutions balancing effort, risk and innovation to meet the challenge of right-first-time design projects.
• Interpret high level requirements to create exceptional solutions for the trading community.

Skills you’ll need:

• Sound understanding of technology trade-offs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Experience in the following:
  • Writing and implementing verification plans.
  • Architecting and implementing verification environments using leading-edge industry techniques.
  • Metric-driven sign-off.
  • Regression automation and continuous integration design process.
• Strong software/HDL development skills – SystemVerilog, Python, C/C++.
• Complex debugging skills in both hardware and software environments.
• Able to work collaboratively with the wider ASIC design team to facilitate rapid project convergence and execution.
• Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or related subject.
• Minimum of 2 years experience

Bonus points:

• Experience of industry methodologies - UVM, SVA, UPF.
• Experience of formal proof technologies.
• Experience developing development infrastructure - shell, HTML, MySQL.
• Experience of embedded software – assembly language, processor architecture.