Management engineer h1.location_city

Role Number: 200628295-3760

Summary

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with many teams, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. We are looking for a strong candidate to join our processor verification team focusing on Power Management and Clock Control verification.

Description

As a CPU Processor Power Management Verification Engineer, you will have the responsibilities as follows:

• Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of the Power Management and Clock Control logic • Develop and execute test plans and schedules for the power management and clock control logic • Develop tests in Assembly, Scripts, System Verilog, or vectors according to test plans to drive testing in simulation and emulation environments • Root cause failures and propose potential solution to the design team • Work with silicon bringup team on developing tests that work in the emulation and FPGA environments. Aid silicon debug in related part of the design • Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the test plans are covered • Develop checkers or Verilog/System Verilog-base transactor to verify the design • Write assertions and apply formal verification to the design

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience in digital logic, micro-processor architecture, or power management architecture

• Experience with digital design verification including Verilog/System-Verilog based testbenches and transactors checkers

• Experience with design verification environments like random constraint verification or UVM base testbenches

• Programming skills in Perl or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred

• In depth knowledge of power management architecture and design techniques

• Experience in system Verilog assertions or silicon bringup or UPF and low power simulation

• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification

• Advanced programming skills such as object orientated programming or CPU assembly language is a plus

• Ability to independently come up with design verification testbenches and environments and solve complex design verification problems

• Should be an extraordinary teammate with excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design issues during verification effort

• Be able to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

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