Verification Engineer

Fractile is building silicon, systems and software which will redefine the frontier of AI: running the world’s most advanced models at radically higher speed and lower cost. We have an exceptional team across hardware and software capable of bringing about this change, and we are growing fast to meet demand and deliver our product at scale.

Our ideal candidate could have 0-3 years’ experience, including recent graduates. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your development, working with an experienced and collaborative team and gaining exposure to a broad range of disciplines. At Fractile, we value ideas from everyone, regardless of title or tenure, and we believe the best engineering happens when people share, question, and learn together. You’ll be joining a culture where your curiosity is encouraged, your input matters, and there’s real room to grow.

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

Required skills and experience:

Strong software skills

Python preferred, other languages acceptable

Understanding of digital hardware concepts

Ability to read and debug RTL in SystemVerilog

Familiarity with debugging waveforms

Desirable skills and experience:

Pre-silicon RTL verification

Verification planning and execution from specification

Building testbenches

Stimulus creation

Functional modelling of hardware blocks

Checker creation

Coverage definition/closure

Transaction-Level Modelling

Whether in UVM, SystemC or another methodology

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)

Software fluency in multiple languages

Open source tools for silicon development

Cocotb (used for all our testbench collateral), Verilator, Icarus Verilog

Commercial EDA tools

Formal verification

Working in a monorepo environment alongside software

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

About us

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.