What are the responsibilities and job description for the Verification Engineer position at Saicon Consultants Inc.?
Job Title: - Verification Engineer
Location: - Austin, TX
Role Type: - 12 Months (Contract)
Job Description:
Participate in the functional verification of a block(s) of complex ASICs and/or IP cores for a combined CPU/GPU development effort. Be part of a team of design and verification engineers, working closely with other team members to understand and verify the functionality of a given design element within the context of the block, chip and overall system. Be responsible for carefully documenting and executing test plan(s) consisting of directed and constrained-random tests to be run during simulation. Be expected to adopt the evolving verification methodologies used in the industry to functionally verify increasingly more complex SoC designs within aggressive, market-driven schedules, and work within the existing verification infrastructure on currently active projects. Be familiar with hardware modeling and/or assertion-based verification methods.
Experience & Education:
- 0-2 years of proven verification experience on large ASIC development projects or software/firmware experience in a hardware development setting
- Strong background in C/C development in a Linux Environment
- Strong debug skills and experience with debug tools such as Gdb, Valgrind
- Proficient in Object Oriented programming, STL, computer architecture and data structures
- Knowledge of Perl and Makefiles
- Experience in Verilog/System Verilog/SystemC, preferred
- Experience in C/Verilog environment using DPI/PLI, preferred
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent written and communication skills