ASIC Digital Design, Staff Engineer

Job Responsibilities -

• Understand Standard Specifications/ the functional specifications/ feature enhancements for the product and create micro-architecture and detailed design for some of the components of the Test Environment for the DesignWare family of synthesizable cores in protocol areas such as Ethernet/DSC/AMBA (AMBA2, AXI, CHI)/ SD/eMMC/DDR/PCIe/ USB/ MIPI
• Be an individual contributor in the Verification Tasks - Architect testbenches, coding of TE, debug, verification coverage improvement, etc.
• Will contribute to technical review of TE Code of medium complexity.
• Will contribute to technical process and quality improvement to achieve high quality deliveries
• Will be expected to Solve complex/ abstract problems
• The candidate should be able to analyze the coverage metrics and improve them with definition of additional test cases in CRV environment.
• The candidate will work in a project and team oriented environment with teams spread across multiple sites, worldwide.
• May need to take the role of technical lead for a few of the components of the Test Environment and achieve high quality verification with a small team of verification engineers.
• The role offers ample scope to mentor junior engineers and interns and to enhance ones leadership skills.

Key Qualifications and Experience
Must have BSEE/ MSEE in EE with 4 to 15 years of relevant experience in the following areas:

• Verification of IP Cores or SoC Designs for Set Top Boxes, Mobile handsets, Smart Devices, etc.
• Knowledge of one or more of protocols: Ethernet/AMBA (AMBA2, AXI, CHI)/ SD/eMMC/USB/ DDR/PCIe MIPI/DSC. Knowledge of Ethernet protocol will be plus.
• Hands on experience with creating detailed design of components of Test Environment from Functional Specifications/ Test Environment Specifications. The TE must have used methodologies such as UVM, OVM
• Test Planning, Coverage Planning, Assertion Planning
• Hands on experience with System Verilog coding and Simulation tools; Deep Knowledge of OOPs Concepts
• Experience with Perforce or similar revision control environment
• Knowledge of Perl/Shell scripts.
• Exposure to quality processes in the context of IP design and verification is an added advantage
• In addition, the candidate should have good communication skills, will be a team player and will have good problem solving skills.

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