Design Verification Engineer- Semiconductor Industry

Job Title: Design Verification Engineer
Location: Milpitas, CA
Description
Primary Responsibilities Include:
Responsible for all aspects of verification methodology employed and for ensuring the application of uniform standards and adoption of best practices.
Work and liaison with other Design Verification teams within our customer sites to identify holes in the Design Verification flow and implement corrective action.
Overall, responsible for verification of ASIC designs To include
such things as:
o Design Verification Implement test benches in UVM and Systemverilog, run regressions at RTL and gate level, generate and report DV metrics with respect to bug tracking and code coverage, debug failures and provide feedback to the design team.
o Responsible for oversight and completion of debugging problems and troubleshooting in Real Time. This includes being responsible for Debugging Designs for High throughput, Low Latency of Pipeline and Dynamic Power Management at full system level.
o Setup Verification Regression suites at RTL Level Corresponding Netlist Level after Synthesis to test any/all Corner case conditions.
This may include: review of specifications, understanding chip architecture, developing tests coverage plans, and defining methodology test benches.
Work closely with Socionexts Custom SoC department to provide great customer service to our clients and the projects at hand. Support, encourage , and drive timely and accurate deliverables with customers within schedules
Necessary Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
5-10+ years of industry experience bringing silicon ICs into high volume production.
Must have strong experience with UVM.
Must have a full chip verification experience
Experience of leading a single project.
Knowledge of industry standard interfaces. Extensive Familiarity with
Verilog, Simulation tools demonstrated ability to debug Problems
Troubleshoot in Real Time.
Sound knowledge of ARMv8, interconnect, memory coherence and memory architectures
Familiarity with Formality most popular Verification Tools. (Key knowledge should include such topics as: IP validation, Gate level verification, FPGA Validation, Emulation, Silicon Validation, Reference Board bring up verification, Silicon Bring up, DFx, Low Power Verification)
Expertise in writing Perl / Python , awk, sed Common Scripts to automate the Verification Tasks for CPU plus all Chip peripherals USB, PCIe, MIPI,
SDIO, PCI E DDR Controllers.
Advanced knowledge of ASIC design and verification flow including RTL design, simulation, test bench development, regression, equivalence checking, timing analysis, scan insertion and test pattern generation
Experience with low-level programming of systems in C/C++.
Experienced in writing scripts in languages such as Perl, Python, and Tcl.
Functional understanding of constrained random verification process, functional coverage, and code coverage.
Low power verification UPF
Team player with excellent communication skills and the desire to take on diverse challenges.
Customer interaction
Other Qualifications:
Good knowledge of low-power camera and imaging systems is a plus
Experience with formal verification tools is a plus.
CPU Security, Secure boot, Secure JTAG
Familiarity with ARM architecture
Familiarity with scripting/programming with Perl/Python, Tcl, C/C++