Lead Verification Engineer

Overview

Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, is seeking to hire an exceptional Lead Verification Engineer to join our Security IP team in Bangalore In this role, you will be working with some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world developing products that make data faster and safer.

As a  Lead Verification Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in the verification of secure ASIC cores developed by Rambus Security Division (RSD), working with cross-functional teams including ASIC design engineers and architects, other verification engineers and system test engineers, security experts, and cryptographers. Cryptography and hardware security experience is not required, but an ability to, and interest in, learning about these areas is important In this full/-time role, you’ll report directly to our  Sr Manager Verification Engineering.

Rambus offers a flexible work environment, embracing a hybrid approach for most office-based roles. Employees are encouraged to spend an average of at least three days per week onsite, allowing for two days of remote work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of verification methodologies, test plans, testbenches, infrastructure, and platforms to produce thoroughly verified and robust products
• Partner closely with our architecture and design teams in specification and customer requirement reviews
• Represent verification methodologies in front of key customers and executive management
• Architect and help implement best verification practices, IP development and productization, quality assurance, release automation and improvements on the existing methodologies and flows
• Tackle sophisticated problems and develop scalable solutions that work across platforms
• Assist with all hardware project phases – bring-up, testing, debug, coverage analysis, and tracking
• Help with IP integration in partner environments and provide debug assistance to customer support teams

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in electrical or computer engineering or closely related degree strongly preferred; but substantial, relevant, outstanding work experience may substitute in some cases
• Eight to Ten years of experience working as a verification engineer or related field
• Strong written and verbal communication skills: ability to explain complex concepts in front of technical audience
• Strong desire to take ownership of all verification aspects of a project, including team and methodology leadership
• Exposure to block-level and/or system-level verification
• Highly technical competence that includes a track record of effective verification of complex digital designs
• Solid understanding of standard ASIC verification techniques, including:
  • Test planning
  • Testbench creation
  • Code and functional coverage
  • Directed and SystemVerilog-based constrained random stimulus generation
  • Self-checking – scoreboards, predictors, or reference models
  • Assertions
• Solid understanding of verification methodologies (UVM or OVM) and standard testbench languages
• Comfortable with Unix development environments (make, scripting, SVN, etc.), and with industry-standard EDA tools (VCS, Xcelium)
• Ability to support testbench lint/rule checking, profiling and automation using perl or python scripting
• Familiarity with advanced verification techniques such as object-oriented testbenches, fault/stimulus injection, FPGA prototyping and/or formal verification
• Protocol Knowledge
  • APB, AXI and AXI Stream
  • Ethernet/MACSec and IPSec
  • Crypto-Algorithm AES,SM4 ..etc

Experience leading multi-site teams and projects, including task and schedule estimation

Beneficial Experience:

• Experience in a customer-facing role
• Experience developing object-oriented testbench infrastructure in UVM

• Familiarity with IP integration, IP core delivery, and handoff issues
• Data, software, and/or network security; cryptography
• Ability to work with technical writers in the production of technical documentation

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Able to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Able and willing to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Able to coordinate with internal and external teams across time zones
• A demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute tasks so as to achieve goals in an innovative, fast-paced, and often high-pressure environment
• Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities
• Passion for writing clean and neat code that adheres to coding standards

About Rambus

Rambus is a global company that makes industry-leading memory interface chips and Silicon IP to advance data center connectivity and solve the bottleneck between memory and processing. With over 30 years of semiconductor experience, we are a leading provider of high-performance products and innovations that maximize the bandwidth, capacity and security for AI and other data-intensive workloads. Our world-class team is the foundation of our company, and our innovative spirit drives us to develop the cutting-edge products and technologies essential for tomorrow’s systems.

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Rambus is committed to cultivating a culture where we actively seek to understand, respect, and celebrate the complex and rich identities of ourselves and others. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are geared towards valuing the differences in backgrounds, experiences, and thoughts at Rambus to help enhance collaboration, teamwork, engagement, and innovation. At Rambus, we believe that we can be our best when every member of our organization feels respected, included, and heard.

Rambus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Rambus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during our job application procedures. If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please feel free to inform us in your application.

Rambus does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.

For more information about Rambus, visit rambus.com. For additional information on life at Rambus and our current openings, check out rambus.com/careers/.