IP Design Verification Engineer

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TITLE: IP Design Verification Engineer

LOCATION: San Jose CA/ Austin TX - Onsite

DURATION: 5+ Months with possible extension

Rate: $90-$120/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, cover groups, 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 bring up 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 bring up

Bring up power-aware verification with UPF

Helping with Silicon bring up 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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