Design Verification Engineer

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TITLE: Design Verification Engineer
LOCATION: San Jose CA/ Austin TX
DURATION: 5+ Months with possible extension
Rate: $90-$110/hr on W2

Job Description:

As a Senior Staff System IP Design Verification Contractor you will contribute to the functional verification of System IP including coherent interconnect and caches. This is a technical individual contributor role with heavily involved hands-on project execution. A strong background in Design Verification and hands-on experience with both block-level and top-level is required to be successful in this role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Architecting and building re-usable testbenches right from scratch
• Proposing and driving best practices/methodologies/automation that can improve productivity
• Owning key features and timely execution of tasks as per milestones
• Experience with GLS [gate level simulation]
• Creating test plans as per spec and presenting to various stakeholders
• Working with designers to resolve any spec issues
• Creating test benches, verification environments, stimulus, tests
• Collaborating with designers to verify the correctness of a design feature, and resolve fails
• Developing assertions, checkers, covergroups, Systemverilog constraints
• Debugging and root causing functional fails from regressions
• Analyzing code and functional coverage results, performing gap analysis
• Working with SoC team to debug functional fails during IP bringup and feature execution
• Collaborating with Physical design teams, running and debugging gate-level simulations
• Collaborating with Performance verification teams to help with co-sim TB bringup
• Bringup power-aware verification with UPF
• Helping with Silicon bringup and root causing fails

Requirements Minimum requirements:

• Phd/MS/BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 12+ years industry experience in a design verification role
• Expert hands-on coding skills in Testbench, Stimulus, checkers development, coverage closure.
• Experience with System Verilog, UVM or equivalent
• Knowledge of ARM protocols or equivalent protocols CHI, AXI, ACElite, APB
• Experience with Git version control, Unix/Perl/Python scripting
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with GLS, power vector generation
• Formal verification skills will be a plus
• Combined experience with coherent interconnect, caches and LPDDR memory controllers will be a plus

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