Senior/Lead Digital ASIC Design Verification Engineer
Full-time/Direct-hire Benefits
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
US Citizen or US Permanent Resident only
Essential Duties and Qualifications:
• Reviewing and editing target specifications as required for completeness and feasibility.
• Developing architectures and specifications for complex design blocks and SOCs
• Implementing complex digital designs using reusable RTL methods (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog)
• Complex computational architectures and algorithms, such as multi-rate/DSP and µP design
• Modern verification methods, incl. directed/constrained-random stimuli, assertions, TLM and UVM
• Collaborative creation of comprehensive verification plans and coverage metrics
• Multi-supply-domain and UPF methods
• Constraining and synthesizing digital designs to target cell libraries.
• Static timing, power, and SI analyses of complex digital designs
• Supporting place & route efforts, incl. P/G and floorplanning, timing and physical constraints, gated CTS, MCMM setups, back-annotation, timing closure, equivalence checking
• Planning, implementing, and analyzing designs for DFT, test hooks, and scan/ATPG/JTAG/BIST, and supporting production test with ATE patterns (ATPG and functional) and timeset definitions.
• Proficiency with Synopsys EDA, incl. DC-Topo, VCS-MX, PrimeTime, Formality, TetraMAX
• Proficiency with Mentor EDA, incl. Questa, ADMS, Tessent
• Modern revision-control tools and best-practices in a collaborative, multi-site design community
• Proficiency with UNIX/Linux incl. shell scripting, text utilities (e.g. sed, awk, grep), using Modules, high-level programming such as C/C , PERL/Python/TCL scripting.
• Proficiency with Windows apps, incl. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, PDF conversion
Requirements:
• 7 years of direct industry experience with ASIC and/or SoC design
• BSEE/MSEE or equivalent
• Strong background in RTL based digital IC design using Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Proven track record of first-pass successes
• Self-starter with the ability to assume leadership roles.
• Ability to work well in a diverse team environment.
• Willingness to mentor engineers.
• Experience with industry standard development tools and methodologies.