Altera · 18 hours ago
SoC Design Verification Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$129K/yr - $206K/yr
7+ years expAltera is one of the world's leading providers of programmable solutions, focusing on agility, software-first, and AI-driven solutions. The SoC Design Verification Engineer will perform functional logic verification of integrated SoCs, develop verification plans, and collaborate with various teams to enhance the verification process.
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Responsibilities
Perform functional logic verification of an integrated SoC to ensure design will meet specifications
Define and develop scalable and re-usable block, subsystem, and SoC verification plans, test benches, and the verification environment to meet the required level of coverage and confirm to microarchitecture specifications
Execute verification plans and defines and runs emulation and system simulation models to verify the design, analyze power and performance, and uncover bugs
Replicate, root causes, and debugs issues in the pre-silicon environment
Find and implement corrective measures to resolve failing tests
Collaborate and communicate with SoC architects, micro-architects, full chip architects, RTL developers, post-silicon, and physical design teams to improve verification of complex architectural and microarchitectural features
Document test plans and drives technical reviews of plans and proofs with design and architecture teams
Incorporate and execute security activities within test plans, including regression and debug tests, to ensure security coverage
Maintain and improve existing functional verification infrastructure and methodology
Absorb learning from post-silicon on the quality of validation done during pre-silicon development, updates test plan for missing coverages, and proliferates to future products
Qualification
Required
7+ years of work experience in logical hardware design and verification
Must be fully knowledgeable of programming in SystemVerilog and UVM hardware descriptive languages
Must possess a background of unit or block ownership in a full hardware design life cycle
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science or similarly related fields
Preferred
10+ years of work experience in logical hardware design and verification
A strong background in Design for Debug verification is strongly needed. Specifically, experience with ARM Coresight debugger verification will be valuable
Objected oriented programming in languages like C++, Java
Scripting in languages like Python, Perl and Tcl is desired
A background in using AI techniques in design and verification is very much desired
Benefits
Incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance
Company
Altera
Altera provides programmable logic devices and design software for various applications. It is a sub-organization of Intel.
1001-5000 employees
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