Principal Verification Engineer
Renesas Electronics
- Edinburgh
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Verification planning, maintenance, feature extraction, verification test case and checker development
- Develop efficient, reusable state-of-the-art verification environments and testbench structures
- Develop verification strategy for digital and mixed signal IPs and implement the verification IP following object-oriented programming principles and methodologies including UVM
- Initiate and participate in review meetings with design and verification engineers
- Lead digital verification of mixed signal ICs or sub-systems
- Work closely with the Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) verification and analog design team
- Mentor junior engineers in the team
- Deliver verification work in the agreed time scales as set by program schedule for all assigned tasks
- Document and log all the verification work
- Verification strategy and concept in place in an early phase of the project
- Ensured specification compliance by having required verification metrics in place
- Verification concept and approaches according to corporate rules and guidelines
- The ideal candidate has an experience of 5-10 years in advanced verification methodologies, owning the verification of complex digital and mixed signal designs
- SystemVerilog for verification using advanced verification methodologies (preferably OVM/UVM or similar such as Specman-e, SystemC, etc.)
- Assertion based verification and Formal verification
- Expert in constrained random verification and metric driven verification
- Expert in simulation and regressions tools e.g. Cadence Incisive, vManager, IMC
- Familiar with either Verilog or VHDL RTL coding and ASIC design methodology
- Familiar with behavioral modelling of analog blocks
- Concise and proactive communication skills within a multi-site and multi-cultural environment
- Ability to persuade and influence others based on technical facts
- Takes responsibility for solutions and makes them happen, self-motivated
- Looks for continuous improvement in own and Dialog work practices