Senior Verification Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Canada · Remote

Senior Verification Engineer role focused on ASIC/FPGA design verification using UVM, formal methods, and coverage-driven techniques. Responsibilities include defining verification strategy, leading execution, debugging, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires 5+ years of experience in ASIC/FPGA verification.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define Project Specific Verification Strategy: Defines and implement scalable and reusable verification plans, test benches, and the verification environments for blocks, subsystems, and SoCs. Ensure meeting the required coverage levels and conform to microarchitecture specifications.
  2. Lead Verification Execution: Create detailed test plans and drives technical reviews with design and architecture teams to validate these plans and proofs.
  3. Executes verification plan: Implement and run block/subsystem/cluster/soc simulation models to verify the design, analyze power and performance, and identify bugs.
  4. Investigate and Resolve Bugs: Replicates, root causes, and debugs issues in the pre-silicon environment. Finds and implements corrective measures to resolve failing tests.
  5. Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with SoC architects, micro architects, full chip architects, RTL developers, post-silicon, and physical design teams to improve verification of complex architectural and microarchitectural features.

Skills

Required

  • ASIC/FPGA design verification
  • UVM
  • Formal methods
  • coverage-driven verification
  • constrained-random testing
  • debugging skills
  • scripting languages (Python, TCL, Shell)
  • industry standard protocols (AMBA AXI/AXI-S/CHI/APB, UART, SPI, I2C/I3C)
  • simulators (Synopsys VCS, Cadence Xcelium)

Nice to have

  • Graduate/post-graduate degree
  • processor-based verification using C/C++
  • low power experience (UPF)
  • CXS stream, DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, UCIe protocols
  • EDA tools
  • reusable testbench development
  • formal verification techniques and tools

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience in ASIC/FPGA design verification
  • Experience in developing UVM and/or Formal based verification architectures and methodologies.