Principal, Design Verification Engineer, UAL and PCIe Subsystems

Position Title: Principal, Design Verification Engineer, UAL and PCIe Subsystems (Confidential Client)
Location: Santa Clara, CA | Onsite
Employment Type: Permanent

Compensation

• Salary: $138,000 - $317,800/yr
• Bonus: Base, bonus, RSU, refresher RSUs

Position Summary

As part of the Design Verification Team at Our Client, you will verify all of the circuitry that goes inside chips for the general market and for specific customers. These chips use cutting-edge technology to facilitate data transfers at high speeds, and you will help verify that each design meets customer specifications whether they are a major telecom organization or automotive company, etc.

In this role, you will develop the architecture for a functional verification environment, including reference models and bus-functional monitors and drivers and contribute to the methodology behind such development.

Primary Functions

• Writing a verification test plan using random techniques and coverage analysis and working with designers to ensure it is complete.
• Developing tests and tuning the environment to achieve coverage goals. Debugging failures and working with designers to resolve issues.
• Verifying boot code and architecting, developing, and maintaining tools to streamline the design of state-of-the-art multi-core SoCs.
• Transforming the requirements from the engineering teams into software tools that are both easy to use and scalable within a highly parallel compute environment.
• Unit and regression testing of software tools.

Must-Haves

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering, 10-12 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with System Verilog, UVM.
• Experience with writing a detailed test plan and building a sophisticated, directed, random-verification environment.
• Experience with scripting language such as Python or Perl and EDA Verification tools.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Design and implementation.
• Good understanding of Linux O.S.
• Good programming skills desired, especially C++ and ARM assembly.
• Prior working knowledge of UAL or PCIe protocols.
• Diligent, detail-oriented, and willing to take initiative and handle assignments with minimal supervision.
• Requires the ability to accept and work with differing opinions.
• Cannot be a close-minded developer.
• Must be able to learn on the fly and work in a fast-paced environment.