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Principal Design Verification Engineer – Coherent Interconnect

Principal Design Verification Engineer – Coherent Interconnect

CompanySamsung
LocationAustin, TX, USA, San Jose, CA, USA
Salary$216521 – $359527
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s, PhD
Experience LevelExpert or higher

Requirements

  • 20+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/relevant technical field, or 18+ years of experience with a Master’s degree, or 16+ years of experience with a PhD
  • 15+ years of professional experience in a design verification role
  • Must have experience with Coherent Interconnect; Combined experience with LPDDR memory controllers is a plus
  • Proficient with ARM protocols – CHI, AXI, ACElite, APB
  • Expert hands-on coding skills in System Verilog, UVM
  • Experience with Git version control, Unix/Perl scripting
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Formal verification skills will be a plus

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the functional verification of System IP including coherent interconnect, caches, and dynamic memory controllers
  • Act as the go-to person for technical know-how and micro architecture
  • Architect and build re-usable testbenches right from scratch
  • Identify shortcomings of existing verification flows and propose new solutions
  • Propose and drive best practices and methodologies that can improve productivity
  • Own key features and timely execution of tasks as per milestones
  • Create test plans as per spec, challenge spec and testplan/code reviews
  • Work with designers to resolve any spec issues
  • Create verification environments, stimulus, and tests
  • Collaborate with designers to verify the correctness of a design feature and resolve fails
  • Develop assertions, checkers, covergroups, and Systemverilog constraints
  • Debug and root cause functional fails from regressions
  • Analyze code and functional coverage results and perform gap analysis
  • Identify coverage exclusions and improve stimulus
  • Work with SoC team to debug functional fails during IP bringup and feature execution
  • Collaborate with Physical design teams, running and debugging gate-level simulations
  • Work with Performance verification teams to help with co-sim TB bringup
  • Bringup power-aware verification with UPF
  • Help with Silicon bringup and root causing fails
  • Mentor junior team members

Preferred Qualifications

  • Combined experience with LPDDR memory controllers is a plus
  • Formal verification skills will be a plus