Design Verification Lead - SoC/System Verilog

Responsibilities

• Author verification plans from specs and micro-architecture; build reusable UVM environments from scratch at subsystem or SoC level.
• Develop constrained-random and directed tests, scoreboards, checkers, coverage models, and assertions (SVA).
• Drive coverage closure (functional, code, assertion), root-cause complex bugs, and work closely with RTL, architecture, and DFT.
• Enable SoC-level verification including interface/IP integration, coherency, low-power modes, resets/boot, and performance validation.
• Support silicon bring-up and correlation of failures to pre-silicon environments.
  

Must-have Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on ASIC verification experience (FPGA or emulation-only work does not count toward the 8 years).
• Multiple production ASIC tapeouts with ownership of SoC or subsystem-level UVM environments and coverage closure.
• Expert in SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA, and constrained-random methodologies; strong debug skills with waveforms and logs.
• Experience verifying standard interfaces and complex subsystems (AXI/ACE, DDR/PCIe, coherency, memory/interrupt fabric, power states).
• Strong testplanning, stimulus strategy, checkers/scoreboards, and closure discipline.
  

Nice To Have

• Low-power verification (UPF-aware), performance/latency verification, firmware-aware verification, emulation acceleration as a complement to UVM.
• Scripting (Python/Tcl) used to enhance hands-on verification, not in lieu of it.
  

Discounted / Not Counted Experience

• Regression running/triage-only roles or lint/CDC-only roles are discounted.
• IP-level-only verification without subsystem/SoC integration responsibility is insufficient.
• Primarily management, methodology-only, or tool-maintenance roles without recent hands-on testbench development will be discounted.
• FPGA-based validation experience does not count toward the minimum.