Development Engineer Hardware Verification (f/m/x)
Böblingen, DE    Infrastructure & Technology    Entry Level

Introduction

IBM’s Research & Development laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany, is the largest European facility in IBM’s global network of development laboratories.

The hardware team in Boeblingen develops the most powerful server systems in the world in an international work environment with our partner labs in USA, Israel and India. These provide the most secure and reliable base infrastructure for cloud computing, machine learning, AI, analytics, technical computing, and countless online transactions in the IT industry. Of course, we are using modern verification methods based on AI and are continuously optimizing our development processes. Agile methods and design thinking are daily tasks in our projects.

Your Role and Responsibilities

To strengthen our team we are hiring development engineers for hardware verification (m/f/x) – starting as soon as possible. The HW verification team works on a wide range of tasks:

• Pre-silicon verification of the logical design of future IBM processors, ASICs, cache and memory hierarchy, and full systems
• Use state-of-the-art techniques to simulate and verify the designs of these custom microprocessor-based systems
• Design & implementation of reference models, simulation drivers, generators
• Creating environments and methodologies for simulating the VHDL input, as well as analysis and problem debug
• Close collaboration with other teams in logic design, research, tools and firmware development
• Development of tools for automation and improvement of our used methodology
• Improving and provisioning of the existing DevOps and workflow infrastructure for our agile hardware and processor development projects
• Evaluation and measuring of simulation coverage

We are proud to develop IT solutions that meet the highest quality standards. It is our team’s technical excellence paired with outstanding motivation that builds the foundation of our success. If you are self-driven, enjoy a flexible and agile work environment and thrive in international teams, then this is your place to work. While supported by a technical mentor from the beginning of your career, you can quickly assume responsibilities for important project tasks. There are ample opportunities to grow your technical, project management, and leadership skills.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You’ll have a strong background in software development, with expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C++.
• Bachelor, Master or Doctorate degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar fields of study.
• Strong programming skill
• Very good knowledge of object-oriented programming (C++ preferred), good knowledge of a scripting language like Python
• Good background of computer/-processor architecture
• VHDL or Verilog
• Knowledge of development tools/technologies (GitHub, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory, …)
• Strong team player and open minded to work in international teams
• Strong communication skills in English and committed to learn German

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Interested in improving machine learning, analytics and DevOps methods and applying them to our projects.