Senior Design Verification Engineer

Viasat, Inc. • Tempe, AZ

23h

About The Position

At Viasat, you will be joining a talented and motivated team of systems engineers, design engineers, and design verification engineers developing cutting edge communications technology with a focus on high quality and time to market. You will be working in a verification environment utilizing current tools and methodologies such as Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and new DV AI agentic tools. You will be asked to help evaluate and deploy new technologies for design verification as they become available. As a Design Verification Engineer, you will be part of a verification team responsible for the full cycle of RTL verification for FPGA and ASIC designs. The day-to-day involves architecting Design Verification environments for ASICs and FPGAs, working with RTL, System and software engineers to determine appropriate coverage closure for chip designs, creating drivers, monitors, scoreboards, sequences, and model predictors for a variety of interfaces and designs, maintaining and communicating program schedule and task tracking (Agile Jira based), and debugging failing tests, understanding both the UVM testbench and VHDL/Verilog source code, working closely with the RTL developers.

Requirements

• 8+ years Design Verification experience including UVM experience
• Experience in UVM testbench creation and usage
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field
• Experience with AI and agentic flow methodologies for design verification and chip development
• Foundational knowledge of digital logic and timing considerations
• Attention to detail, ability to follow process and coding guidelines, participate in code reviews and accept feedback
• Experience with industry standard simulators such as Questa, Xcelium and VCS
• Proven track record of work in UVM testbench development
• US citizenship
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Must be able to obtain a secret clearance

Nice To Haves

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work with a geographically distributed team
• Object oriented programming experience
• Familiarity with designing and coding for testbench horizontal and vertical re-use
• Familiarity with AI coding agents for design verificaiton
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and take ownership of tasks and results

Responsibilities

• Design verification planning including test plans
• Testbench development using SystemVerilog/UVM
• Hands-on debug with the design team
• Ensuring quality via collection and analysis of coverage metrics including code and functional coverage
• Managing regressions and compute resources
• Tool evaluation and license management
• Responsible for owning and driving technical issues to resolution
• Architecting Design Verification environments for ASICs and FPGAs.
• Working with RTL, System and software engineers to determine appropriate coverage closure for chip designs.
• Create drivers, monitors, scoreboards, sequences, and model predictors for a variety of interfaces and designs.
• Maintaining and communicating program schedule and task tracking (Agile Jira based).
• Debugging failing tests, understanding both the UVM testbench and VHDL/Verilog source code, working closely with the RTL developers.

Benefits

• range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered
• comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness

What This Job Offers

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