SoC Power Verification Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

The focus of this role is to develop, execute, debug tests and methodologies for SoC low power features. You will work closely with the Architecture, IP/SoC Design, Physical Design Teams, and Product Engineers to achieve first pass silicon success.

THE PERSON:

Join us if you have passion for modern, complex processor and SoC architectures, digital design and verification. We are looking for a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with engineers located in different sites/time zones. The ideal candidate for this role will possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Collaborate with architects, hardware, and firmware engineers to understand the new features to be verified.
• Build test plan documentation, accounting for interactions with other features; hardware, firmware, and software driver use cases.
• Estimate the time required to write the new feature tests and required changes to the test environment.
• Build the directed and random verification tests.
• Debug test failures to determine the root cause; work with RTL and firmware engineers to resolve design defects and correct test issues.
• Review functional and code coverage metrics; modify, add tests, or constrain random tests to meet the coverage requirements.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Proficient in SOC level ASIC verification.
• Extensive experience with multiple SoC tape-outs taken to production.
• Hands on experience of Low Power Design and Verification methodologies (eg. UPF, power domains, multi-voltage).
• NPU/AI processor knowledge.
• Proficient in debugging firmware and RTL code using simulation tools.
• Proficient in developing and using UVM based verification frameworks and testbenches, processes and flows in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Automating workflows in a distributed compute environment.
• Experienced with Assembly, Verilog, System Verilog, C, C .
• Good understanding and hands-on experience in the UVM concepts and SystemVerilog language.
• Good working knowledge of SystemC and TLM with some related experience.
• Scripting language experience; Perl, Python, Ruby, Makefile, shell preferred.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PHD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or relevant fields.

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