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Verification Engineer | Core Engineering

Jump Trading


Job Location:

Bristol - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 20 September 2026 (16 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 18 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics Physics and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries push through them and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness creativity intellectual honesty and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design develop and deploy technologies that change our world fund start-ups across industries and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Core Development is a global team of technologists who architect build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware we leverage software & hardware engineering data science and research to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs.

We are looking for an ASIC Verification Engineer who combines strong technical skills with pragmatic problem-solving curiosity and a drive to deliver on complex is integral to our design process. Youll work across architecture RTL design software implementation and infrastructure helping shape how we build and validate our platforms. Working closely with designers and trading teams youll translate demanding real-world requirements into robust thoroughly verified designs.

What Youll Do:

  • Own verification environments from planning through sign-off. Translate architectural and system requirements into verification strategies test plans and measurable completion criteria for complex projects
  • Build scalable verification environments. Develop reusable testbenches reference models stimulus scoreboards and other verification components
  • Drive verification closure. Use coverage assertions regression results assess risk and build confidence in our designs
  • Solve challenging hardware and software problems. Collaborate across disciplines to isolate root causes resolve spec ambiguities and drive issues to closure
  • Make sound engineering trade-offs. Balance verification depth development effort and delivery timelines while delivering right first-time silicon
  • Improve productivity. Develop automation CI regression infrastructure and tooling that make verification faster more reliable and lower maintenance
  • Contribute beyond verification. Bring a verification perspective to architecture and design reviews

Skills Youll Need:

  • At least 3 years of design verification experience including work on complex ASIC/SoC projects
  • Experience creating and executing verification plans building verification environments and driving metric-based sign-off
  • Strong programming and HDL development skills including SystemVerilog and Python with proficiency in C/C
  • A solid understanding of digital design principles and the ability to reason about hardware behavior corner cases and trade-offs
  • Strong debugging skills across hardware and software with a systematic approach to diagnosing complex failures
  • The ability to turn high-level or evolving requirements into clear testable specifications
  • A collaborative and reliable approach clear communication accountability for your deliverables and ability to give and take constructive criticism
  • A degree in electrical or electronic engineering computer science mathematics physics or a related discipline
  • Bonus Points:
    • Experience with UVM cocotb or assertion-based verification
    • Experience with formal verification tools and techniques
    • Experience developing front-end ASIC tooling verification infrastructure or engineering workflows.
    • Familiarity with processor architectures assembly language and embedded software development.

Benefits include:

  • Private Medical Vision and Dental Insurance
  • Travel Medical Insurance
  • Group Pension Scheme
  • Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Parking and Commuter Benefits

Required Experience:

IC


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Jump Trading is a division of Jump Trading Group, a leading data and research-driven trading business

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