Lead ASIC Verification Engineer

Job Title:  Lead ASIC Verification Engineer

Location: Boise, ID

Employment Type: Temp to Direct

Industry: Aerospace and Defense

Pay Rate: $114.62/hour

Schedule: 40 hours/week

About the Opportunity:

• We are seeking a Lead ASIC Verification Engineer to drive verification strategy and execution for advanced embedded security, anti-tamper, and hardware security technologies supporting critical defense applications.
• In this leadership role, you'll guide verification efforts across the ASIC development lifecycle, mentor engineers, and ensure designs meet rigorous performance, security, and reliability requirements.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Lead ASIC verification activities at the block, subsystem, and full-chip levels, including planning, execution, coverage analysis, and signoff readiness.
• Develop verification plans, requirements traceability matrices, SystemVerilog/UVM environments, reusable verification components, and test methodologies.
• Execute and oversee simulation, regression, formal verification, emulation, and defect management activities to ensure design requirements are met.
• Collaborate with design, architecture, and program teams to identify risks, resolve issues, improve verification processes, and support technical reviews.
• Mentor verification engineers, provide technical leadership, and support program planning, proposal efforts, vendor oversight, and continuous automation improvements.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Science or Engineering or Mathematics.
• 10+ years of experience developing reusable testbench components and register models.
• 10+ years of experience debugging simulations and determining root causes.
• 10+ years of experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, Bash, and Python.
• 10+ years of experience with ASIC simulation and debug tools such as VCS, Verdi, Questa, or equivalent tools.
• 10+ years of experience with Linux, version control, and automated regression environments.

What Sets You Apart:

• Master's Degree.
• Experience with formal verification, CDC/RDC analysis, or low-power verification.
• Experience with emulation, silicon bring-up, or post-silicon validation.
• Experience verifying third-party IP and complex interfaces.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience with vendor oversight, proposals, estimates, or program controls.
• Strong knowledge of ASIC and SoC verification processes.
• Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog, UVM, assertions, coverage, and regression testing.
• Strong understanding of RTL, digital logic, interfaces, clocks, and resets.
• Ability to convert requirements into measurable verification objectives and tests.
• Ability to communicate technical results clearly to varied audiences.
• Ability to lead multiple activities while maintaining quality and schedule.
• Strong technical judgment, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person', as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.
• Requires an active Secret Clearance.

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