Lead Design Verification Engineer
NXP Semiconductors•Published 4 days ago•First seen 4 days ago
Role Summary:
Looking for Lead Design Verification Engineers with 6+ years of experience who will be responsible for pre-silicon verification of IPs, subsystems, and SoC designs to ensure functional correctness and high-quality silicon delivery.
Develop and execute comprehensive verification strategies, UVM-based environments, and coverage-driven verification plans to achieve verification closure. Collaborate with architecture, design, firmware, and software teams to validate RTL implementation against specifications and micro-architecture requirements.
Job Qualification:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (EE).
- More than 6 years of hands-on experience in Digital Verification within a reputed semiconductor design company.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, digital design, and computer architecture concepts.
- Proven experience in RTL verification using Verilog and SystemVerilog.
- Strong expertise in Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and coverage-driven verification techniques.
- Experience in developing verification plans, testbenches, scoreboards, assertions, and constrained-random verification environments.
- Good knowledge of functional coverage, code coverage, regression management, and verification closure methodologies.
- Experience with industry-standard simulators such as VCS, Questa, and Xcelium.
- Hands-on experience verifying protocols such as I2C, I3C, SPI, AXI, PCIe, USB, Ethernet, or similar interfaces.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, or Shell scripting for automation and debug.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to analyze specifications and identify functional gaps, corner cases, and verification risks.
- Good verbal and written English communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional and global engineering teams.
- Self-motivated team player with a strong commitment to quality and timely project execution.
Job Responsibility:
- Responsible for the pre-silicon verification of IP modules, IP subsystems, and/or SoC top-level designs.
- Define digital verification strategy, verification architecture, and execution plans for SoC and subsystem-level verification.
- Develop, maintain, debug, and execute UVM-based verification environments for RTL and gate-level simulations.
- Create directed and constrained-random test cases, stimulus generators, scoreboards, checkers, and assertions.
- Execute simulation regressions, analyze failures, and drive bug tracking and resolution to closure.
- Collect, analyze, and drive code coverage, functional coverage, and assertion coverage metrics to achieve verification sign-off.
- Interface with Hardware, Firmware, Software, Architecture, and System Engineering teams to ensure complete specification coverage.
- Verify industry-standard interfaces and protocols such as I2C, I3C, SPI, AXI, PCIe, USB, Ethernet, and other high-speed interfaces.
- Utilize industry-standard EDA tools such as Synopsys VCS, Siemens Questa, and Cadence Xcelium for verification and debug activities.
- Contribute to verification methodology improvements, automation, scripting, and best practices to enhance team productivity and quality.