Design Verification Engineer, Principal

Position Title: Design Verification Engineer, Principal (Confidential Client)

Location: Santa Clara, CA | Onsite

Employment Type: Permanent

Compensation

• Salary: $158,600 - $317,800/yr


• Additional Compensation: Base, bonus, RSUs, Refresher RSUs

Position Summary

As a leading member of the Network Switching team, you will develop the architecture for a functional verification environment, including reference models and bus-functional monitors and drivers and contribute to the methodology behind such development. Your role may also include project management and leading a team of verification engineers on a project level.

Primary Functions

• Verify all of the circuitry that goes inside chips for the general market and for specific customers


• Develop the architecture for a functional verification environment, including reference models and bus-functional monitors and drivers


• Write a verification test plan using random techniques and coverage analysis and work with designers to ensure it is complete


• Develop tests and tune the environment to achieve coverage goals


• Debug failures and work with designers to resolve issues


• Verify boot code and architect, develop, and maintain tools to streamline the design of state-of-the-art multi-core SoCs


• Transform the requirements from the engineering teams into software tools that are both easy to use and scalable within a highly parallel compute environment


• Perform unit and regression testing of software tools


• Lead a team of verification engineers on a project level

Must-Haves

• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with 10+ years of verification and firmware and software development experience (or MS/PhD with 5+ years experience)


• Proven track record of leading Design Verification implementation activity and tape-out of complex SOC under tight schedule


• In depth understanding and experience with System Verilog and UVM


• In depth experience with writing a detailed test plan and building a sophisticated, directed, random-verification environment


• Experience with scripting language such as Python or Perl and EDA Verification tools


• Experience with Object-Oriented Design and implementation


• Good understanding of Linux O.S.


• Good programming skills, especially C++ and ARM assembly


• Diligent, detail-oriented, and willing to take initiative and handle assignments with minimal supervision


• Ability to accept and work with differing opinions


• Able to learn on the fly and work in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of networking protocols