Staff Design Verification Engineer

The Staff Design Verification (DV) Engineer is responsible for setting the verification policies, managing verification activities, preparing verification packages for clients and maintaining verification assets.

As a staff engineer, the role can also include involvement in research and development, process development, process improvement, resource planning, team development, project leading, and client communication.

Key Responsibilities:

● Establish and improve systems and processes related to design verification

● Provide leadership to design verification projects

● Verify digital designs up to system-level

● May verify analog-mixed signal blocks that interface to digital blocks

● Identify test cases and develop verification plans based on design specifications

● Develop testbenches and testbench components such as models, monitors and scoreboards

● Perform test implementation, simulation and debugging

● Design regression testing environments

● Perform regression testing, coverage collection and analysis

● Prepare verification packages for clients

● Project management

● Coach junior design verification engineers

● Collaborate with design team and other stakeholders to deliver on-time and high-quality design verification

● Review output of junior members of the team to ensure quality of design verification

● Develop and promote best practices for design verification

● Manage verification assets

● Provide support to customers

Key Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or related courses
• With at least 10 years of digital or analog-mixed signal design verification work experience

Design Verification Process & Technology Domain:

• Expert in all phases of design verification - verification plan creation, testbench creation, test suite implementation, simulation & debugging, coverage collection & analysis, and regression testing
• Experience in analog-mixed signal verification is preferred
• Proficient in industry standard protocols such as AXI, AHB, PCIe, and I2C
• Expert in multiple technology domains such as sensors, video & image processing, security and SoC infrastructure (memory, I/O, bus controllers)

EDA Tools:

• Expert in using simulation tools such as VCS, Incisive/Xcelium, and Questa

Language & Methodology:

• Expert in HVL and methodologies (Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM)
• Proficient in C/C++ or other high-level programming language
• Proficient in scripting such as Perl, shell scripting and Tcl

Nice to have:

• Ability to standardize and improve development processes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and spoken English
• Aggressive in learning, strong problem solving, decision-making and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work in a team operating across multiple sites
• Ability to plan and organize project activities
• Ability to lead a design verification team
• Ability to coach junior engineers