Principal DSP Verification Lead

About the company:

Anthriq is a signal processing infrastructure company. We build the full acquisition and compute stack for human-aware technology — from custom analog front-end IP that captures biosignals at the source, to signal-first compute systems built for time-critical, deterministic workloads.

Our infrastructure is designed around one principle: the signal should never be the bottleneck. General-purpose processors — CPUs, GPUs, DSPs — were not built for this class of problems. They approximate determinism. We built it in by architecture.

Anthriq Silicon is our ground-up effort to build a new compute category.

Key responsibilities

• Architect multi-agent UVM environments for a wide-issue VLIW pipeline (fetch, decode, hazard detection, execution units, in-
  flight credit model).


• Build equivalence scoreboards: SystemVerilog RTL vs. C/C++ cycle-accurate ISS, integer and IEEE-754 FP.


• Develop constrained-random assembly generators for 100% ISA and register-file coverage across a large custom opcode
  space.


• Write SVA and drive formal property verification for arithmetic pipelines (fixed/float FMA, matrix multipliers, CORDIC,
  dividers).


• Verify a compiler/hardware worst-case-timing contract (measured vs. claimed latency).


• Execute and debug block-level SDF back-annotated GLS.

Must-have skills:

• 8+ years verifying processor cores (VLIW, SIMD, DSP, or custom RISC-V vector extensions).


• Advanced SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA.


• IEEE-754 floating-point AND fixed-point arithmetic-pipeline verification; matrix math, FFT/CORDIC.


• Proven 100% functional-coverage closure on complex IP.

Nice to Have:

• C/C++ reference modeling.


• Formal tools / proof convergence.


• WCET / timing-contract verification


• Target EDA tools: Cadence Xcelium, JasperGold, vManager