Saad Khalid
Senior Verification Engineer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSaad Khalid is a Senior Verification Engineer with six years’ experience specializing in RISC-V core verification, SystemVerilog/UVM, CHISEL, Verilog, and C/C++. He has driven verification for Linux-capable, multi-privilege cores with MMU and ePMP support at organizations from research (BSC) to industry leaders (Imagination, AMD), repeatedly catching critical RTL bugs via directed and randomized tests and co-simulation against Spike. Skilled in automation with Python, Ruby and Bash, he builds efficient, reusable test infrastructure and documentation that reduces duplicated effort across teams. Saad’s hands-on work spans unit-level pipeline stress tests to top-level multi-tile NOC verification, and he has practical experience validating complex features like SV39/SV48 virtual memory and RISC-V vector support. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful test planning and mentoring, and he brings an unusual mix of deep ISA-level knowledge and pragmatic tooling experience to verification delivery.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Pre-Engineering, High School Pre-Engineering at Government College University (GCU), LahoreBachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
Urdu, Punjabi, English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
32-bit10
cpu10
risc-v10
bit10
risc10
openembedded10
hardware10
computer-engineering9
spike9
simulator8
computer-architecture7
verification6
soc3
asic2
fpga2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Saad525/ibex
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Ibex is a small 32 bit RISC-V CPU core, previously known as zero-riscy.
Contributions:38 pushes, 15 branches in 3 months
risc-vcpuzeroibex32-bit
Saad525/LM_RIA
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
LM RISC-V Inverse Assembler
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
risc-vriscassemblerinverse
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