Principal Design Verification Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role & Team:

• As part of the Design Verification Team , you will verify the circuitry that goes inside our chips for both the general market and specific customers. These chips utilize cutting-edge technology to facilitate high-speed data transfers. You will ensure each design meets rigorous customer specifications across major telecom, automotive, and technology sectors.
• As a leading member of the Network Switching Team , you will develop the architecture for functional verification environments (including reference models, bus-functional monitors, and drivers) and contribute to development methodologies. Your role may also include project management and leading a team of verification engineers at a project level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Planning & Execution: Write detailed verification test plans using random techniques and coverage analysis; collaborate with designers to ensure completeness.
• Environment Tuning: Develop tests and optimize environments to achieve defined coverage goals.
• Debugging: Debug failures and work closely with design teams to resolve complex issues.
• Tool Architecture: Architect, develop, maintain, and test software tools to streamline the design of state-of-the-art multi-core SoCs.
• Scalability: Transform engineering requirements into highly parallel, scalable, and user-friendly software tools.
• Testing: Perform unit and regression testing of internal software tools and verify boot code.

Position Requirements:
Education & Experience:

• Education: BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Experience: BS: 10 years of verification, firmware, and software development experience while MS/PhD: 5 years of relevant experience is preferred.

Required Technical Skills:

• Leadership: Proven track record of leading Design Verification implementation activities and delivering successful tape-outs of complex SoCs under tight schedules .
• Methodologies: In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM .
• Environment Building: Strong experience writing detailed test plans and building sophisticated, directed, and random-verification environments.
• Software & Scripting: Proficiency with scripting languages (Python or Perl) and EDA Verification tools.
• Software Design: Solid experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and implementation.
• OS: Good understanding of Linux operating systems.
• Programming: Strong programming skills, specifically in C and ARM assembly .

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Understanding of networking protocols.

Professional & Soft Skills:

• Diligent, detail-oriented, and proactive with the ability to handle assignments with minimal supervision.
• Open-minded developer capable of accepting, processing, and working with differing opinions.
• Fast learner who thrives in a high-tempo, fast-paced environment.