Mixed-signal Design Verification Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionJob Title: Mixed-signal Design Verification Engineer
Job Location: Santa Clara, CAJob Duration: 3 Months, Contract to Hire Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in pre-silicon design verification
• Proficiency in C-shell scripting, Verilog-HDL & System Verilog.
• Strong knowledge in SV Assertions, UVM/OVM and functional code coverage.
• SOC Verification experience using ARM Cortex Microcontroller is required.
• Experience with advanced peripheral bus Verification IP’s such as GPIO, UART, SPI, SW, JTAG, and I2C.
• Proficient with Cadence tools such as NCVerilog, NCSIM, Simvision. Experience with linting tools (i.e Spyglass) will be helpful.
• Exposure to SDF annotated simulations with good understanding of parasitic delays and timings is required.
• Exposure to FPGA programming and FPGA tools will be helpful.
• Independent, self-motivated with good analytical & communication skills."

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect and Create verification environments using System-Verilog and Universal verification methodology-UVM IPs and SoCs with embedded CPUs and analog mixed-signal interfaces.
• Running complete set of design verification tools available on AMS blocks
• Execute multiple projects with emphasis on AMS and Power aware verification.
• Develop test plans and coverage metrics from specifications and writing block and chip-level tests.
• Create PERL/Python scripts to automate creating verification environments, tests generation and debugging.
• Failure analysis of Register Transfer Level and Gate simulations and resolve them by working with design engineers.
• Create low power testcases using UPF or CPF to verify the desired power intent of the SoC.
• Work with architects to determine the use-case scenarios to simulate"

Mandatory Skills:

• Synopsys/Cadence EDA/DV tools (Preference: 5)
• AMS tools and Simulations (Preference: 5)
• SystemVerilog/UVM (Preference: 5)
• Python (Preference: 3)