Design verification Engineer Lead

THE PERSON:

You will have strong analytical/problem solving skills, high attention to detail, and motivation to independently drive tasks to completion. You will also have p rofessional interpersonal and communication skills. If this sounds like a role you are interested in, we welcome you to apply!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Development and verification of embedded firmware for SOC secure boot and embedded microprocessor driven hardware acceleration services for cryptography, decompression and large scale DMA functions.
• Hardware/Firmware co-verification in UVM System Verilog and C-DPI structured testbench.
• Hardware/Firmware co-verification in FPGA hardware prototype platform.
• Develop and maintain subsystem verification architecture, testbench, test methodology for
• Embedded CPU and subcomponent IPs with
• AXI/AHB busses and HW accelerators such as
• Cryptography, Data Compression, DMA, etc
• Participate in subsystem specification, influence IP micro-architecture development (HW and FW co-design and verification aspect), develop and verify abstracted performance model
• Create abstracted FW and HW performance models
• Develop critical target code to collect IP performance key parameters
• Explore subsystem architecture performance trade-off for FW and HW optimization
• Develop and execute subsystem and block level test plans
• Develop FW/HW co-verification methodology
• Develop UVC and System Response models
• Develop and debug UVM and C-DPI test cases with integrated FW
• Improve verification metrics
• Further develop subsystem and block level testbenches using UVM randomized test methodology and C-DPI directed test methodology.
• Develop and maintain subsystem level integration scripts
• Develop and maintain subsystem testbench build and test run scripts
• Drive to verification metrics closure
• Interface with SoC integration and SoC DV teams
• Define and develop IP level DV API to support SoC level DV effort
• Develop and maintain IP build and delivery infrastructure to support SoC level integration of SMU IPs.
• Support SoC level IP emulation, silicon bring-up and debugging effort

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• ASIC FW and HW design and verification experience
• Proficient in C, C++, Assembly, Verilog, System Verilog, and several scripting languages (Make, Perl, Python, etc)
• Excellent knowledge about UVM methodology and C-DPI methodology
• Excellent knowledge about standard bus/interface protocols (ie AXI, AHB, AMBA)
• Excellent experience with firmware design on commercial microprocessors
• Excellent experience with microprocessor tool chain, compiler, assembler, debugger
• Excellent experience with ASIC verification tools, simulation, linting, power aware simulation, etc

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Major in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• B.Eng or masters or PhD Degree preferred.