Principal Verification Engineer

6 days ago


Bristol, United Kingdom MicroTECH Global Ltd Full time

JOB AD:
With 10+ years experience in industry you will relish the opportunity of working on a diverse range of projects that will both challenge and develop your verification skills.

You will have an excellent understanding of different methodologies, but particularly SystemVerilog and UVM. Faced with a new project, you will have the ability to quickly assimilate the verification challenge and help define an effective (and pragmatic)verification strategy and gain the support of the end-customer for the chosen approach. You understand the importance of monitoring key metrics to assess progress and predict the end-point for the verification process.

As you rapidly build your verification skills through engagement on a broad range of projects you will have the opportunity to take on the role of verification lead, with responsibility for architecting the test environment and driving the other team membersto deliver the agreed solution.

Ideally you will be familiar with both Mentor Questa and Cadence Incisive tools.

The key responsibilities and experience are summarized below:
Key Tasks / Responsibilities
- Verification specialist working on customer and internal projects - including as the verification lead.
- Provide high-class verification support to a wide range of projects using a range of advanced verification techniques including constrained random, coverage driven, assertion-based and formal methods.
- As a verification lead you would also be responsible for the development of a comprehensive verification strategy and plan, along with the architecting and development of the complete test environment.
- Active participation in the verification community to drive the introduction of new and effective techniques within our business - to help solve the verification challenges faced by our customers.
- To support business development by working with potential customers to understand their verification requirements and develop innovative technical solutions to achieve new design wins.
- Close working with our customers to build a strong relationship that results in repeat business.

Key Skills / Background
- 1st or 2.1 Electronics, Physics or Computer Science from a Tier 1 group University
- 10+ years experience in industry working on a variety of verification projects
- Extensive knowledge of verification methodologies particularly UVM and SystemVerilog
- Familiarity with constrained random verification methodologies, code coverage analysis and running regression tests
- Expert in the planning and implementation of verification infrastructures, test benches, models, assertions and functional tests in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
- Experience as verification lead on at least one project.
- Strong VHDL/Verilog RTL

Personal Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong and effective presentation skills, able to operate at multiple levels including senior management
- Self motivated
- Take ownership of problems
- Creative problem solving
- Team player



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