Senior Custom Soc Ip Verification Engineer

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Custom SOC/IP Verification Engineer to design and verify next-generation custom SOCs for various product lines, including AI. The role involves leading ASIC design verification, collaborating with multiple teams, and ensuring comprehensive verification plans. Requires proficiency in verification tools, UVM, C++, Perl/Python, and AMBA protocols, with experience in subsystems like GPUs and DLAs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead ASIC design verification for various processing blocks in a SOC, including planning, execution, Coverage and methodology development.
  2. Collaborate with multiple teams (Architecture, SW/FW, Design, Modeling, Emulation, Post-Silicon Validation) to ensure comprehensive verification plans.
  3. Support engineering teams in delivering solutions for purpose-built ASICs and collaborate with IP development teams for IP identification, selection, and licensing.
  4. Analyze SOC and IP architecture, develop verification plans, and establish performance metrics.
  5. Work with partners in a co-development environment during development, debug, and bringup.

Skills

Required

  • design verification tools like Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium Simulator, Verdi, JasperGold, and VC Formal
  • UVM
  • C++ testbenches
  • interpreting functional specs
  • building comprehensive test plans
  • Perl
  • Python
  • AMBA protocols (AXI, ACE, CHI, ATB)
  • ARM CPU
  • LPDDR
  • HBM
  • GPUs
  • DLA
  • PCIe
  • Network on chip

Nice to have

  • mixed language UVM

What the JD emphasized

  • impact in a dynamic, technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence
  • push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the platform for the future of computing
  • Consistent track record of first-pass success in ASIC Development
  • 5+ years of experience in ASIC, IP, or SoC design verification
  • strong background in AMBA protocols (AXI, ACE, CHI, ATB)
  • subsystems in new technologies like ARM CPU, LPDDR, HBM, GPUs, DLA, PCIe, and Network on chip, including performance verification