Principal Engineer - Digital Verification

Microchip•Allentown, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Microchip’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) Business Unit offers industry leading performance, reliability, and security for PCIe Switches, and NVME Controllers. As a Principal Engineer-Verification, you will provide leadership in the highly successful PCIe Switch product line. These complex 800M gate+ integrated silicon devices enable top tier data centers in next gen storage, artificial intelligence and automotive market segments.

Requirements

Minimum BSEE and of 10 years related proven verification or silicon design experience
RTL verification using coverage driven verification techniques
Scripting in any language
Proficient in HDL languages SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL
Familiarity with UNIX environment
Good analytical, oral and written communication skills
Able to write clean, readable, and maintainable code
Self-motivated, proactive team player

Nice To Haves

Programming experience or coursework in C, C++
Experience or academic knowledge of the design and verification of interfaces and controllers for high speed serial protocols such as Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, and PCI-Express
Understanding of ASIC designs and verification methodologies
Knowledge of MIPS or ARM, X86 system architecture

Responsibilities

Defining verification plans and building verification environments for chip/module level designs using System Verilog with UVM.
Applying advanced verification techniques like constrained random generation, functional coverage, assertions, and formal verification.
Simulations using Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator, and debugging using SimVision.
Writing test cases, checkers and coverage that implement the verification test plan.
Support emulation, ASIC lab validation including lab debug and providing root cause simulations and workarounds.