Senior Design Verification Engineer - QGOV

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Role:
Familiarity with RTL design in Verilog and System Verilog
Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
Develop test plan to verify Hardware building blocks, Design macros and Standard interfaces (PCIE, DDR, USB, I2C, SPI, etc) .
Own end to end DV tasks from coding Test bench and test cases, write assertions, running simulations and achieving all coverage goals
Explore innovative DV methodologies (formal, simulation and emulation based) to continuously push the quality and efficiency of test benches
Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
Will need to be in San Diego full time, 5 days a week

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience with RTL/FPGA design (Verilog), embedded system architecture
• 5+ years of Design Verification, Emulation and Debug experience with simulation and emulation and prototyping flows
• Relevant experience of 2-3+ yrs in any of the mentioned domain - Design/Verification/ Implementation
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of communication protocols such as AXI4-x, DDRx, PCIe, etc.
• Strong System Verilog/UVM based verification skills & experience with assertion & coverage-based verification methodology
• Good understanding of chip-level functional model building
• Good understanding of OOP concepts Experience in HVL such as System Verilog, UVM/OVM & System C
• Knowledge of Behavioral and Structural models and familiarity with simulation environments
• Experience customizing and debugging make-based build flows and working with Xilinx’s Vivado tools
• Experience with cm tools such as Git and Gerrit.
• Experience in formal / static verification methodologies will be a plus
• Experience with emulation platforms – Palladium, Zebu, Veloce, FPGAs.
• Experience with synthesizing and optimizing designs and verification components developed in synthesizable Verilog.
• Experience with C/C++ DPI transactors and monitors.
• Experience with debugging tools such as JTAG and lab test equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.
• Experience with GLS, and scripting languages such as Perl, Python is a plus
• Linux OS proficiency
• The ideal candidate would be a self-starter with strong initiative, discipline, motivation, and a focus on quality.
• The candidate must be a team player and be flexible and open to a variety of task assignments within the team.

Responsibilities

• Coding Test bench and test cases
• Write assertions
• Running simulations and achieving all coverage goals
• Develop verification methodology, ensuring scalable and portable environment across simulation and emulation.
• Develop and maintain emulation environment to collect metrics related to emulation environment.
• Develop environment to run verification test cases, OS boot, performance benchmarks and other vectors.
• Design, develop, and maintain CAD infrastructure for silicon design teams enabling bring up, test and debug automations.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring-up, regression enabling for all features under your care, debug of the test failures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level