Senior ASIC Verification Engineer

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THE ROLE:

As a Senior ASIC Verification Engineer, you will help bring to life cutting-edge FPGA, ASICs for variety of target customers. As a member of the front-end design/integration team, you will work closely with the architecture, IP design, PD teams, and product engineers to achieve first pass silicon success.

THE PERSON:

You have a passion for modern, complex IP architectures, digital design, and verification in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/time zones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems. 

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified for PCIe CXL based IP's
• Develop test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features, the hardware, the firmware, and the software driver use cases
• Code IP or SS level UVM based testbenches, verification components - monitors, scoreboard, checkers
• Build the directed and random verification tests 
• Run regressions, debug test failures towards ensuring high design functional, performance and implementation quality  

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with PCIe or CXL or NVMe or ethernet protocols is a must 
• Proficient in IP level ASIC verification 
• Expert in Verilog, System Verilog, Object Oriented programming
• Expertise in developing UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches
• Scripting and automation of verification processes and flows 
• Exposure to leadership or mentorship is an asset 
• Experience working in a team environment through the ASIC / FPGA Project lifecycle from Planning to Tape Out
• Exposure to simulation profile, efficiency improvement, acceleration, HLS tools/process
• Good Computer Architecture, systems knowledge
• Comfortable in python / perl and editing / maintaining scripts
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a cross-site team environment
• Exposure to generative AI  or simulation tools for test, testbench, assertion, test plan generation or performance optimization is a plus

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

LOCATION: 

• San Jose, CA,
• Candidates located in San Diego, CA; Austin, TX; or Longmont, CO may be considered for more senior-level experienced candidates. 

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